Unless, that is, one’s living in a
national security state. Here, the inhumanities of math and science for
commercial reward and/or security, a pattern of behavioral psychology favorable
to gluttonous automatons, is stressed, resulting in the brutal annihilation of rebellious
[not commercial/popular] artistic impulses from the earliest conceivable age.
Trouble is only artists* can perceive
when they’re living in a commercial political-economic system geared to the
defense of elite assets before it expands into the realm of state as a whole,
which is a bit broader than mere government. “Artists,” as Pound famously said,
“are the antennae of the race.”
Some artists feel the system as a child
under their parents’ rule.
An adult hatred for that subjection is sometimes
manifest as a loathing for objectivity, authoritarianism, manipulation, liars, gatekeepers,
official responsibility, etc., and seems
a common “pathology” among many admirable artists…that is, artists whose playing is worthy of admiration in the astute
eye of a similarly sensitive beholder.
Point is if you want freedom, become an
artist. Be beautiful to yourself and others capable of perceiving that beauty. Be
an aesthetic contagion. It’s truer than being moral.
And Gaia will likewise take care of
herself…
As Bukowski famously advised: “Don’t
try.”
Happy Labor Day sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it?
*An artist is one who believes that art—a
true pursuit of beauty—is humankind’s highest calling, necessarily replacing
morality with aesthetics as the more honest approach to reality, which makes
art more moral than morality, artists holier than priests. Homo economicus is beneath contempt and will not otherwise be considered.
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