***
I don't mean to be facetious
...completely.
Thou shall not take all of life too seriously all of the time.
For now is relevant
We are in a place – or at least you are, and I am.
And culture is not just for wise cracks.
We are participants, in choice or reluctance.
It is just almost laughable –
those who assert their power on others
(whether they realize or not)
to bully them away from dreams,
"protecting our rights"
Bullshit.
Really, it's not laughable.
Time is not renewable
Space is finite (the livable stuff, at least)
but ideas are not.
By making and sharing,
with the humility that comes
when we realize how stupid it was to think sharing would be a torment,
we puff our contribution into the atmosphere.
We foster global consciousness
of consciousness.
...completely.
Thou shall not take all of life too seriously all of the time.
For now is relevant
We are in a place – or at least you are, and I am.
And culture is not just for wise cracks.
We are participants, in choice or reluctance.
It is just almost laughable –
those who assert their power on others
(whether they realize or not)
to bully them away from dreams,
"protecting our rights"
Bullshit.
Really, it's not laughable.
Time is not renewable
Space is finite (the livable stuff, at least)
but ideas are not.
By making and sharing,
with the humility that comes
when we realize how stupid it was to think sharing would be a torment,
we puff our contribution into the atmosphere.
We foster global consciousness
of consciousness.
***
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself.”
"Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of affiliations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.”
(Lethem 61)
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