metonymy4u

What is art and what does it teach us about conscious experience? Are you one of those people who holds to the individualistic side of the polarity, or the social? Do you affirm the heroic quest of the artist towards herself alone, or do you seek a more sublime vision? The universal in the individual or the individual among the masses? Private irony or public hope? I think we cannot have one without the other. For if none of us had ever experienced the inexorable march of time, the attenuation of will and the contingency of intent, who among us could connect with a line like “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…?” A simple one manded vision of the sequential addition of time, that is nevertheless universal in its appeal: life measured out by discarded tea bags and cotton swabs, a notion of seriatim, the set of markable episodes in your personal novella. Our science driven society has encumbered us with a notion of separation: to divide and conquer the world. And yet, the very idea of non-selection, of disinterested inquiry is itself an illusion, is it not? When any endeavor seeks to wall itself off completely from all others, I would think we shall all shudder from the consequences.