[Note: Since it is not possible for me to keep working all my life to refine my texts and risk NEVER SHARING THEM, I am writing on these blogs just the way it comes out, with no edits. But I will put a warning like this at the top indicating that this should be treated as nothing more nor less than METAFICTION. It just happens to be one of the Tools of the Trade I inherited. I just know if I don't publish this stuff now as it comes to me that I will regret it, I always have in the past. at least here I know where to find it, it's on a website with my name on it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction)
I will make it quick and simple. Those more skilled than I in interpretation and social sciences of History and Art Historiography and so forth will be able to elaborate, Philosophers too, from political-economic thinkers. to thinkers of the realms of high finance and so forth. What most people writing about the Art Market in the last 100 years failed to realize was that artists were NOT in it for the money EVER, not now, not forever. It's a much more ancient practise and doesn't even have to be explained with mysticism and magic or anything of the sort. It is so simple you will want to thank me for the joy it brings, but I must renounce on any merit or credit you might attribute to me. Just follow your heart when it inspires you to do something that can only bring joy to human hearts and preserve our great Humanity.
Here is why we have collectively preserved the Image of the Starving, Crazy Artist, why it continues to be propagated and drives so much that we do, even when we fail to realize it. What we need, first of all, is a healthy Art Market, in true Capitalist manner, a free market for art and knowledge, but that can only ever possibly bring good and continue to bring good. Currently, there is art theft and vandalism and iconoclastic enthusiasm waiting to break on every corner of the globe and it is important that we remind ourselves of why we do many of the things we do. A short explanation follows.
Imagine a small population of living beings. Say they just sit in the mud. We call them Basic Humanoids. Then as they grow into a larger pool, there is need of a Division of Labor. Now say we have 4 Trades or Traditions in the pool or population of Humanoids. Say that each trade or tradition has a "Captain" of sorts, Captain of the team. This will eventually prove that hierarchy matters and that it is naturally-occurring and often necessary to preserve our very existence on this planet. But I digress.
What happens is that when one Trade or Tradition in the Passage of Culture Through Time and History, when one of them ends up getting too big, it needs to break off into other parts. But what can happen is a Moment of Great Perplexity: It is possible to arrive at a situation where there are "Too Many Captains" and so it is no longer possible to ensure that the Captain keep the tradition or trade alive.. And he/She can be debunked or overthrown, and the collapse of an entire Technical Culture or Technical Media even, who knows, can be lost forever.
What humans do on earth is preserve and conserve and perpetuate the wonderful existence of the Arts & Cultures. There are other things, like Sciences, Philosophy, which all stem from Art, are "Branches" or "Forks" if you will. Test the theory and remove anything that might corrupt the sacred preservation of Beauty. Merge through Interpretation with proper Documentation, Readability standards, Best Practises, and so forth. But the Project MUST Start with the purest intention (Which might be Attempting The Impossible at times, but only if there is no malice that is extant).
In any case, When there is Division of Labor and there is the possibility of Diminishing Returns, then the Cultural Business risks Going Under and we Risk losing a little bit of our Humanity, by losing a Culture. This is true of All Lost Culture, and Culture is the cultivation of whatever it takes to pass on the Gift of our great Humanity.
Ergo, a form of Civic Humanism is something that one might want to study, for it would speak directly to the heart of of a Spirit of Conservation, Preservation, and so forth. But as stated, this is not my speciality.
It also means that anyone speaking of the invention or spreading of "social currencies" is LYING if they are NOT speaking in these terms or terms that are in the Same Spirit. For I, a distinguished Professional Painter and Independent Scholar, am doing it in the SPIRIT OF ALL MY PEERS. For my Peers and I have debated, discussed, discoursed, and this is the realization most of us in North America or parts thereof have been able to agree upon (Common Sense; sensus communis): We need an Art Market soon so we can start delivering these goods. We have gifts of plenty to share with the world but the world refuses to let us practise our ancient arts, our Trades, Traditions, except in small pockets (small pockets compare to the Big Pockets it could potentially unleash).
Someone might not be able to afford to purchase the Pyramids, but they could Commission an artist or Art Business, i.e. Culture Business, Arts & Culture Business to do it. One will be tempted to say that this already exists, but I can assure you that I know at least one place on earth where this does not exist, in fact the exact opposite exists. And if this exists where you live then stop listening to nay-sayers and pundits and come back to Reason. Start listening to Art Historians and Art Historiographers, I can give you lots of names. Go to your museums. Start helping out by giving artists and artisans of the creative industries and creators of creative systems that perpetuate the good of humanity through Human Arts & Culture..
What happened, my dear friends, is we fell into Socialism, or fell prey to a form of Social Capitalism where the great works of arts & Culture of the past, great works of Knowledge which humans dedicated their lifetimes to preserving and conserving, those were all about to get through in the trash, and not by some Bogey-man, but by the persistence of human naiveté I guess. Though it was never a real existential threat, it's just that there was confusion and discord, but now it is okay. Artists and Cultural Workers the world over just got through through an almost religio-ecstatic mystical pressure cooker as they received the wisdom of our ancient brothers and sisters. It is a Doctrine in concordance and harmony with, and in the Spirit of, EVERYTHING, UNIVERSALLY.
Immanuel Kant taught us that in his Critique of Judgement. That was the point, but they rebelled against him. Then those after that rebelled against those that rebelled against them, ad indefinitum. The problem is that those who once in a while think that they have solved the ancient puzzlement of the Glass Bead Game, are mistaken. It is much more sophisticated than anyone could ever understand who isn't at the top of their A-Game in at least one of the many Professions of the Arts & Cultures, and Industries, Trades, Traditions, etc. And I am a very lowly painter for I have revealed a trade secret. But I fear losing humanity forever, and so have now shared it in the appropriate spirit. Besides, I am being persecuted for the work I do and cannot currently exile myself to another land and so much both continue to live with the persecution and hope that I get to leave some of this behind for others to put back together.
My life's work has been too Encyclopedic for me to just let it go like that. I took off where Paul Otlet left off. I am about to reveal my stupid papier maché REFCARDS. What, it doesn't say somewhere that I am a writer of fiction and non-fiction? Well, I write Historiographic Metafiction too, Novelistic Phenomenologies. Except now it has been taken a step further, in a project I call 400 years of Madness.
Recommendations for Proper Orientation: Sting has a new album and musical The Last Ship, Robert Lepage has a new Four-play series called Jeux de Cartes (Deck of Cards). It will all make sense soon. I'm just happy because this was the vision I had 16 or so years ago. Finally, a time has arrived for my Novellas. I have been given the gift of an Audience! How joyful is that?!! haha
The persisting problem, though, is why I still can't get anyone interested in my stuff. Is it really because I'm not any good? Or is it because the Art Market I'm speaking of doesn't exist? Sure, Cinema works fine. Theater works fine. Music works fine. But what about the ancient art of Depiction? Doesn't anyone want to know what Dr. Cyclicus Scriptor is doing? Those who carry the sacred Scribal arts on their shoulders and their backs? Have people given up on their willingness to read things? Must I ask you to please, heavenly please, read the works of Margaret Atwood, a fellow Canadian?
The Real History of Canada was almost lost forever.. But it has been fully retrieved, and then some. It has taken far too long to piece it back together. Now so many nations and peoples can heal who have passed here on this mass grave. The earth is a mass grave, by the way, I'm sorry if you have trouble digesting that, but the earth needs bodies for Beauty to keep growing. Now now, simmer down, I told you repeatedly, look at the calendrical dates, this is Carnival Time we are going in.. It's this way or the highway buddy! Keep on keeping on, sleds fore and away mates! Follow the course,. PINXIT.
- In The Voice of Fictional Character Named Pilgrim Bronze
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