The following drawings all began as experiments.
Their quality is pending.
Their quality is pending.
Dennis just posted wallop titled Study War.
I sent him an email:
is it about being prepared, without being scared?
imagine the worst
it is healthy?
dreams and nightmares must be respected?
I've been meaning to post the artist vs. the crazy as;
outside society looking in
vs.
outside society looking out
meek does not mean naive?
strong should mean balanced?
It all is woven into the relationship between the society and the individual.
How do we respond to individuals outside of society?
We've (assuming I'm inside some society) got to be ready for imbalance.
Would I have the gumption to wrestle a hijacker?
Is it true that the majority of Death Row inmates do not connect their forthcoming punishment to a crime?
When you get so far outside society that your actions only make sense to you. . . what happens?
Yes. Study war.
I sent him an email:
is it about being prepared, without being scared?
imagine the worst
it is healthy?
dreams and nightmares must be respected?
I've been meaning to post the artist vs. the crazy as;
outside society looking in
vs.
outside society looking out
meek does not mean naive?
strong should mean balanced?
It all is woven into the relationship between the society and the individual.
How do we respond to individuals outside of society?
We've (assuming I'm inside some society) got to be ready for imbalance.
Would I have the gumption to wrestle a hijacker?
Is it true that the majority of Death Row inmates do not connect their forthcoming punishment to a crime?
When you get so far outside society that your actions only make sense to you. . . what happens?
Yes. Study war.
6 comments:
maybe society and the individual are ultimately indistinguishable.
perhaps the division is false.
so either individualism is a mirage
or
collectivism is a way of being an individual
the hermit needs society and it's removal in order to be a hermit.
psychotic paranoia has a way of vividly illustrating false logic.
it's beyond absurd when someone is so narcissistic to think the world is against them.
Is this a new idea? It can't be. It makes so much sense.
I think you meant to say, rather than either/or,
Individualism is a mirage
AND
collectivism is a way of being an individual
I've had conversations with three individuals who were about to be put in a cage because of their psychotic paranoia. Scary. It completely set me strait about why crazy has nothing to do with art. It was the correlation=causation connections that were creepy. Like you say, false logic driving increasingly desperate actions.
Two of those people are my friends today. They were able to step back into themselves and us. They can even laugh (a little) and recall their state of mind, as if in an out-of-body experience.
If the madman is off the list, should we cross off the child and the beast too?
I keep thinking that there is a polar connection to thinking that eveyone is watching, one leads to paranoia, and the other leads to delusions of granduer. The former is crippling and maybe the latter can be productive for awhile.
Anyway, "maybe society and the individual are ultimately indistinguishable." is the most interesting thing I've come across lately. People aren't ready for it yet, are they? I'd even go so far as to say that society might be what some people call a god. This can't be a novel idea. Some science fiction fantasy author must have run this one around. . . someone like Stanislaw Lem.
I love Stanislaw Lem.
Robert Anton Wilson writes about "metanoia" which is the condition of becoming conscious of the connectivity of all acts and actors while simultaneously relinquishing the concept "I".
By observing mass-murded, we become it and it becomes Us. Just like we are the magicians that make the grass green and the sky blue...some of us are Lost and that makes others realize that there's really nowhere you can be lost. Where you are is where it's at.
We are psychotic. We are transcendent. We are hopeful. We are hopeless. We are individuals. We are groups.
Artists should be humble and grand. Although sometimes it's hard to do both at once.
dammit.
between you and chris rywalt coughing robert anton wilson's name in my comments section, I've been officially infected and I will have to go buy a book by him tomorrow.
humble and grand made think:
breath out and breath in
give up and puff up
Now that is a blog title:
give up and puff up
Wait.
Was there a time when our pendulum wavered more towards the group awareness? Have we forgotten something? Or are we about to learn something? Is Group-Self-Awareness something that is our "next step forward".
no such thing as "next step forward"
this is it
but that's ok
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