"We're Gawds"
I don't think I'm an artist never have.
Even though like you, and everybody else I've been doing one kind or other of creative mayhem all my life. Still I don't fit any description of them guys,...not one.
It could be that the only descriptions I've ever run into are about semi-existent mostly guys doing weird shit then getting insanely rich, and or dying broke. Anyone can die in the gutter, but it takes creds to do it as an artist.
It could be that the only descriptions I've ever run into are about semi-existent mostly guys doing weird shit then getting insanely rich, and or dying broke. Anyone can die in the gutter, but it takes creds to do it as an artist.
The artist caste is as insular as any other.
However unlike any other everybody more or less is one kind or sort of artist. So a few guys figured out the only way to make the racket a going business would be to limit membership.
Which they did with amazing completeness.
Art creds are hard to come by. Well okay sometimes they get a bit guilty about it, and clear a few square inches for "Outsider Art" or Comix book folks, but that's about all.
Meanwhile Seven Billion folks are out there creating stuff all the time all over the place.
All unrecognized. Maybe our crap to "official" artists is unrecognizable as "art". Like so much of their crap is to us.
Meanwhile Seven Billion folks are out there creating stuff all the time all over the place.
All unrecognized. Maybe our crap to "official" artists is unrecognizable as "art". Like so much of their crap is to us.
The business of being a "Genius" has a similar limiting culture.
Clearly you can only be one if you invent some weird shit that kills people or can be sold for zillions. I mean just look at who we call geniuses.
Okay maybe a few nice folks, but still...look at 'em.
Btw there are Seven Billion of them unofficial geniuses too. Using their creativity to develop all manner of swell jazz. You don't know about them because none of it makes money or at least no one yet knows how to apply it to make money. You know the deal.
'Course there are Seven Billion jerks fanatics assholes morons, and complete idiots too. Our last election, and world political mass delusions religions wars, and regressive cruel customs show that seriously well.
So to conclude we're a world of brilliant creative artistic geniuses with a strong habit of grand delusions vicious stupidity, and extreme violence.
Yep made in the image of da Gawds alright.
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