Vive le Underground
…aye though I mean not le Metro, albeit rated!
I’m just decided to sit under my tree and watch this one float by. So you can’t put a price on The Arts, so what else is new. Personally I’ve always felt squeamish about putting a paper money price on anything I do. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation axing its Art Dept. et al opens up plenty thought though on what it means to make creative stuff, how it is valued, fiscally, in society, to the individual and collective audiences it meets and meets the needs of. Needs…
And then my mind tracks off instinctively to concerns vis the creative expression of various subcommunities… of and for those communities exclusively… I think of a discussion I read somewhere in an Alex McCall book about homogenic culture leading to the destruction of personal values. How we might see that we need personal values, acquired or arrived at, in order to see clearly the outline of our egos so as to overcome them.
Oh god and then the Ethics debate, thanks Nile.
Well I can only prattle here, I have an eight months pregnant mind what’s already historically tended to defeat. So draws your own pictures! But makes them for yourselves.
To quote Gillian Welch, “Everything is Free” -
They were gonna do it anyway, even if it doesn’t pay.
