In dysfunctional cultural conditions, the artist is an island of energy.
Bounded by absurdity and failure, that is to say, failure of the culture to thrive without direction, the artist, like the military strategist, brings reason, experience, and foresight to the creative act.
This is the essential nature of expression both critical and independent, without which cultures are entirely lost. Many will recognize this loss of once-thriving cultural settings within living memory, with the understanding that the surrender of personal freedoms brought about these extinctions.
As far as cultures of free individuals are concerned, the artist is the last line of defense, the last stand against encroaching darkness.
Bounded by absurdity and failure, that is to say, failure of the culture to thrive without direction, the artist, like the military strategist, brings reason, experience, and foresight to the creative act.
This is the essential nature of expression both critical and independent, without which cultures are entirely lost. Many will recognize this loss of once-thriving cultural settings within living memory, with the understanding that the surrender of personal freedoms brought about these extinctions.
As far as cultures of free individuals are concerned, the artist is the last line of defense, the last stand against encroaching darkness.
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