Let me say you are one of the precious few people who publicly accept the natural connection between the evils global and the lives innermost. And let me add I’m grateful for the regularity of your output, which provides support to many people like me (and which I slightly envy).

Now, to the matter at hand: You wrote:

………Art makes realities, worlds, universes. In doing so, it jettisons rules. It makes up its own rules, or dispenses with rules altogether. If more artists understood this, if more people became artists, society would undergo a remarkable transformation. […] What that would look like, how it would operate, is unknown. We’ve never seen a society like that on planet Earth………..

Given all of it, why don’t you as an artist make a reality, a world, a universe in which everyone is an artist that makes its own reality? Why do you instead bother with us, in this dark, narrow hole called “reality”? Do you need us to be really accomplished and free?

……[art] jettisons rules. It makes up its own rules, or dispenses with rules altogether…….

What’s a freedom worth if it’s based on whim, rather than a Will indistinguishable from Law?

Here is my personal feeling: What is usually called art these past few millennia – the paintings, the sculptures, writings, musical compositions and recordings – are mere fingerprints of the genius that individual humans utilise during hardship. In adversity one is usually alone, art serves to express what unheard of, and perhaps unspeakable, troubles you had, and how you got out of them. As such, art is an integral part of technology, and every engineer worth its title would admit you that their engineering choices are as much a matter of calculation as they are a matter of personal style.

Art may be likened to a personal starship that can free a person from one world. But, think also of a heap of coal atop of which a group of hominids is freezing toward death, and a dark beast inside *us*, a bete noire for every lover of farce and accomplice to evil.

Ivan K.
SE Europe

By the way, have you noticed the “delivery” of these news b$^%@rds? Their weird intonation, the alien rise and fall of their robust voices, the out-shot brreath at the ends of words-hhhhhh?

No?

They are incanting; it’s—to them—a magical incantation to take your humanity and re-engineer it into one of Jon’s stinking androids. It’s machine-code, to program you, to make you hang upon their every rhythmic breath and word. I bet it’s taught in dark cellars at “J” school. I bet it’s a secret. I bet anyone who challenges it will be located, isolated, pinned down, and blow-torched with ridicule and hatred into oblivion.

It would make a great movie: “Monsters in the House.” Whatever you do, don’t go into the living room alone….

Proudly re-posted on The All-Seeing Eyebama! http://eyebama.onehumanbeing.com/2013/08/17/why-must-art-imitate-reality/

This is also a symptom of damage to the right side of the brain (eg. stroke), and of a culture that trains or “schools” inhibition of right brain function through demanding absolute left brain dominance in order to avoid punishment and succeed. Thanks BTW for turning me on to John T. Gatto on schooling vs education, yet another rare voice of brilliant outspoken sanity much like your own.

I highly recommend a beautifully written exploration of this subject of our paired brain consciousness by Iain McGilchrist called: “The Master and his Emissary – The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.” I find his frame of right and left brain ways or methods of perceiving and doing the same things, of great help in learning to hold and balance multiple perspectives at once.

He also elucidates many of your recent comments about art (as distinct from split off, dissociated, schizophrenic, and non-contextual “modern art”), as well as only taking others and their communications literally rather than perceiving the many layers of nuance, metaphor, imagination, and thus of meaning. The introduction is downloadable from his website (his name.com) as well as some short videos of his talks. There is also a shorter 30 page eBook available.

As a psychotherapist, I also think this provides a frame for deeper insight into the current chemical, drug, and epigenetically induced upsurge in “autism spectrum disorders,” as well as ADD, Asperger’s Syndrome, and alexithymia.

This ultimately clarifies the reasons for corporate and institutional methods of artificially inducing mind-blindness in the masses and artificially selecting for sociopathic traits and antisocial personality disorder as the new keys to the kingdom of money, status, power, and the right to make the rules and thus to rule.

Thankfully not everyone takes the bait, and in my own work I find that including and balancing the many dualities of my own nature a necessary prerequisite to being of service to others. If I can’t build an actual free and sane society as a functioning ecosystem within my own consciousness, how could I assist others to engage their own diverse versions of that work? If I can’t build it inside first, no amount of effort, money, votes, or force will enable building it outside.