ART: “This is my sure declaration – I will be the next and final currency! But this can only be so in MUTUALITY. Both male and female must live (totally inhabit) me and live as a PARTNERSHIP INSIDE ME (THEIR CREATIVITY).
This is the reality you all seek. I know it sounds like a FABLE, an impossible MYTH; A DREAM but it will soon manifest-you’ll see! ”
LOGIC: “But it is not ADULT to live in an ARTISTIC FAIRYLAND called “ART” – what is that? It is against all I stand for! I won’t have it!”.
ART: “On the contrary, Logic, I am the ultimate ADULT world because I meet EVERY need of man. In your obsessive haste to achieve perfection, you have diminished the necessary and natural worlds of FANTASY (the possible) and LEISURE (being truly one with oneself).
These essential worlds are encapsulated in me – ART!!
You cannot any longer avoid, deny or disfigure your NATURAL IMPULSE for the IMAGINARY, the ETHERIAL, the UNPREDICTABLE, the INCREDIBLE, THE POSSIBLE.
You have become MENTALLY ILL (lost) – Logic !! – and HEAVILY ADDICTED (bored) particularly in the West – by trying to live a life devoid of FANTASY and you have sentenced your brothers and sisters elsewhere to nothing but POVERTY and SLAVERY.! SHAME on you, Logic !!
Their pathetic and only function it now seems is to keep you – the GOLD (power) SEEKER – enthroned. You have even turned on your own; suspecting your own families of betrayal.
FEAR and abominable GREED now drive you, Logic. But you are a dying force! Don’t worry, though – you will merge with me.
This constant angst makes you terrified of LEISURE. You are not her mistress but her slave and in your sad quest to fill the void of your aloneness, you sacrifice everything – even THOUGHT (clarity) and REASON (meditation) – replacing them with DESIRE!
The PHYSICAL REALM consumes your very soul as once did the PHILOSOPHICAL and REFLECTIVE REALMS.
Only I can relieve this tension.
Because only in ME does TIME evaporate. TIME does not exist in me and TIME (not me) is your enemy.”
2
LOGIC: “But you are only great in small doses, Art”
ART: “If you take me only in small doses then you are never content. But if you house me as a PERMANENT RESIDENT within your very bosom (SOUL), then I bring my “gift” to you.
I am able to ENDOUR you with PURE & CONSTANT “PLEASURE”!
This sounds frightening to you, Logic, doesn’t it! But PURE & CONSTANT PLEASURE can become ACCEPTABLE, even “NORMAL” (natural). Why do you teach that HAPPINESS, JOY and PLEASURE must be PERSUED but never appropriated ? And even when attained, why do you teach that they are somehow “bad” and “transient” ? Why do you teach that one must expect their rapid departure? And why do you teach that LEISURE must be CRAMMED with a million things to do, or it is not LEISURE ? And that FANTASY is pure INDULGENCE, TEMPOARY or EMPTY FOOLISHNESS ?
Surely these natural qualities of man should be good (like JUSTICE and GOODNESS) for their OWN SAKE. They are their own reward and we would be better men for choosing them.
Is it a RELIGIOUS CUSTOM of yours to keep man “PURE?” But can’t you see – this custom is based on FEAR not REASON? (You have been told this often enough by scholars wiser than I).
PURE PLEASURE lies within. Now – Isn’t this the real reason why your society rejects it?
BECAUSE IT IS NOT able to be PURCHASED_( of COMMERCIAL value ?) ”
LOGIC: “Why, Art? What are you suggesting? That I am mercenary?”
ART: “The ECONOMIC ORDER labels ME ( authentic FANTASY & LEISURE) as non-acceptable and in my place, a PSUEDO-FORM of me, takes shape. To confuse matters, it goes by MY name – “ART” – but it is COUNTERFIET and can only be PURCHASED.
Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, Entertainment and Materialism are all the manufactured pleasures of this manufactured “ART”. But they must be PROMOTED – unlike ME – I stand ALONE on my OWN MERIT!
I use to hide in garrets and starve and was only of value when my creator had died – generally, a miserable and anonymous death. I still hide in garrets (hospitals, jails, flats, garages, sheds) and I sit in solitude, undiscovered. My creator has yet to value me. Instead, they turn to suicide (drugs, alcohol, junk food, medication, crime) because their soul is ART and real ART will never be prostituted.
Alas, young people, the vulnerable and the ignorant are easy targets. This demon-lie even pays your society to maintain attitudes of youth, vulnerability and ignorance in the minds of millions, as such minds are the easy and regular audiences and consumers of this “ART” as “product”.
These then are the ACCECTABLE and COMMERCIAL (one might say: ONLY) PLEASURES in your society –
But Logic, where is the depth (meaning)? Where is the reverence (seriousness)?
Even vulgar extremes are APPROVED – but of course – in a clandestine way – titivating & suitable for “adults only.” You know this to be true, Logic.
Yet the REAL PLEASURES are denied! And to ENJOY them as a PERMANENT STATE would no doubt be considered a CRIME!! BLASFERMOUS!! Or perhaps a LUDICROUS THOUGHT -worthy of MORE medication…!!”
LOGIC: “You are being UNREALISTIC, Art.”
ART: “If by “unrealistic” you mean NOT FINANCIALLY PROSPEROUS – then yes, you are right.
For to live PERMANENTLY and PLEASURABLY inside one’s authentic ART would be to RELINQUISH both the love of MONEY (material possessions) and the FEAR of DEATH (complete abandonment).
COMMERCE has SOLD you a MYTH OF REALISM, my dear Logic, packaged as “EDUCATION” based on MATERIAL GAIN and STATUS not MERIT!
TRUE EDUCATION is to embrace FREEDOM of THOUGHT (PHILOSOPHY) and TRUE LEISURE (MEDITATION).”
LOGIC: “Surely, you are not suggesting man embrace POVERTY?”
ART: “MINIMALISM is not POVERTY, Logic. It is rather the very foundation stone of PLEASURE for TRUE CONTENTMENT is derived from ADEQUACY not EXCESS.
This requires COURAGE and LOVE. You resist these two ideals as you (wrongly) associate them with PAIN. (You associate JUSTICE with PAIN also as you wrongly associate it with SELF-SACRIFICE).
When you choose to JUMP (as true adults do) or, in most cases – are PUSHED (through imposed hardship) off THE SHIP OF STATE -which is a FALSE community (culture), based on image, trade and profit, as opposed to genuine care and concern – you will experience for the first time, an AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY!! The people demand it! And it will come from them!
POVERTY will then be banished FOREVER because REAL COMMUNITIES enjoy harmony. In real communities there is no wealth and there is no poverty. There is simply adequacy and contentment. It is the natural state of man.
You currently live in, dare I say it, a PSUEDO COMMUNITY, Logic.”
LOGIC: “I do not understand such an accusation.”
ART: “A REAL COMMUNITY must be based on ART Not MONEY!!
One’s PASSION is one’s ART and only one’s PASSION SUSTAINS one. One can LIVE one’s PASSION only under the PROTECTION and FREEDOM of a REAL COMMUNITY.
To live anywhere else – OUTSIDE one’s ART or OUTSIDE a real caring community (the two being mutually exclusive) – is to live in THE REAL FAIRYLAND OF MYTH AND LEGEND! Conversely, to live INSIDE your ART is to live inside REALITY; the reality of constant BLISS. And this is Logic – Logic!”
LOGIC: “You are confusing me. I am not following you.”
ART: “Man’s PASSIONS will drive him to EXTREME SACRIFICE. The noble goal for these passions is the REAL CARE – not the Pseudo care (which is time, profit and image based) – of his family – as well as the NEEDY within his COMMUNITY.
REALITY is ONE’S TRUE SELF revealed in a SINGLE focus. One cannot rush therefore from thing to thing or job to job. You have been INDOCTRINATED to think that you must do this. You are CONDITIONED to this INVALID model!
Now you must have a different model; a TRUE MODEL based on THE MOMENT (what “IS”) as opposed to THE FUTURE (the GOAL – what “MIGHT BE”). Well-meaning parents raise their children on this MYTH as they themselves have been raised on it.
It is time you thought again, Logic, for yourself!”
LOGIC: “So REAL ART can SUSTAIN ?”
ART: “Yes, Logic – you can survive, but MODESTLY and COMMUNALLY – much to your chagrin… but there is NO ALTERNATIVE. You will NOT SURVIVE in the Nuclear Family (that’s why it’s called “Nuclear Family” because its end is death to the family; it is toxic). THE EXTENDED FAMILY, however, is LIFE, GROWTH…
It is ORGANIC and therefore ALWAYS EVOLVING. And, as in NATURE, VARIATION is essential for the well-being of a species.
The Extended Family caters specifically to DIFFERENCES; this alone ensures its healthy survival.
NEEDS not DESIRES are met through simple, subsistence living.
Why do you recoil so violently at the mention of the word SUBSISTENCE ? Is it a swear word in your primitive society, Logic? Or does this word specifically offend you? Methinks the latter!
Is it because you are naturally GREEDY ? Naturally SELFISH ?”
LOGIC: “Art, I do protest!”
ART: “Then I have GOOD NEWS for you, Logic. Living INSIDE one’s ART AUTOMATICALLY contains one’s inappropriate LUSTS which are UNHEALTHY and DANGEROUS to man. They damage and DESTROY his very HOME – his environment.
You need a “LID” but a NATURAL LID.
This LID is PLEASURE but NATURAL PLEASURE, emanating from man HIMSELF; from man’s very CORE; his ART.
This is your QUEST, Logic
- MAN HIMSELF -
-
to find your own illusive NATURAL ABILITY. It is your NOBLE POSSESSION and exists within EACH MAN.
You must search WITHIN, Logic, before traveling to foreign countries or outer space; before climbing high mountains or reclaiming lost treasures beneath the seas. Nowdays we design engineering masterpieces (dams in Venice and under water tunnels in Denmark), but the NATURAL WONDERS are to be loved (not possessed, utilised or conquered) They should INSPIRE and HUMBLE you, Logic. And the modern version of this “DOMINATION of nature” is “REPLICATION and improvement of nature” through excessive technological feats of amazement. We are still possessing, utilizing and conquering nature but we now use technology (our minds) rather than our bodies (exploration) to do so.
The purpose of the NATURAL world is to inspire us to feel and think – MOTIVATE your ART – bring forth from your lips an emotional expression of wonder and praise, emanating from humility and admiration, not ego.
You already have the equivalent of THE MOON, THE MOUNTAIN PEAK and the PEARLS of the deep within you; this is your ART and you must seek them out with all your might. They are your TREASURES, your true and honorable possessions.”
LOGIC: “Only the extremely talented can live like this, Art.”
ART: “You weren’t listening, Logic. Didn’t I say “each” man ? You can ALL survive there in those ELYSIAN FIELDS which don’t exist for the talented alone but for all – yes, even you, Logic !! Why? Because
EACH MAN’S ART is GOOD
and
RESPECTABLE, no matter how humble it may be.
And each man’s ART is REQUIRED by the Community; it is
NECESSARY
No matter how imperfect, small, weak or foolish.
When you learn to ACCEPT and LOVE ME – no matter how humble I may be– you learn to accept and love yourself; you become MODEST as opposed to BOASTFUL, CONCEITED and SELF OBSESSED, which I see as the distinct flaw in your so called “Communal” Life, Logic. All COMPETITION naturally ceases when I am fully found and embraced.
And to ACCEPT and LOVE something SMALL, WEAK and (seemingly) FOOLISH is the very beginning of REAL LOVE.
I dare to suggest that REAL LOVE exists rarely in your society, though volumes are written and much is constantly said about it.
For it is only by LOVING the SMALL, WEAK and FOOLISH things in YOURSELVES – loving something in yourself, you have long DENIED, IGNORED or even DESPISED and REJECTED – that you are ABLE to TRULY LOVE those same qualities in others…. And aren’t these the VERY QUALITIES that make you HUMAN ?”
LOGIC: “You mean my FRAILTIES ? VULNERABILITIES ? IMPERFECTIONS ? Heaven forbid such words are spoken in public! These words do not EXIST in my vocabulary! I do not know them, Art!”
ART: “ Of course you don’t, Logic! But I do – and there you have it! The TELOS of Modern Man’s dilemma! He is IMPERFECT! Man and not God. For who can say he TRULY LOVES if he only loves that which is GRAND, BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT, WHOLE, PURE ?
This is surely ADMIRATION (nay, envy?) and not LOVE at all and therefore UNSATISFYING in the extreme –a barren, empty wasteland of nothingness and futility.
It is the IDEAL and not the REALITY. The IRONY is that once man accepts the REALITY he ACHIEVES the IDEAL. While he pursues the IDEAL, the REALITY constantly alludes him! Are you listening, Logic?
By its very nature, communal living AUTOMATICALLY CORRECTS and INSISTS that man CONFORM to the IDEAL – the TRUE MODEL of REAL LOVE (mutual acceptance and value) – in order to fully embrace his standard emotions; pain, remorse, love etc. He cannot achieve this without real community. Each man is thus COMPELLED BY NATURAL FORCES, forces as true as gravity itself, to FACE HIMSELF in real community.
In ISOLATION, he can only RETREAT to SELF-DECEPTION or DENIAL. This appears a very comfortable and safe place but in fact it is BITTERLY LONELY and TRAGIC. Deep in his HEART, every man knows this to be true. It has been a respite from PAIN and CONFUSION; but only that – a RESPITE. It has been man’s UNHAPPY HOME for centuries – until today!
And it is not his PERMANENT or TRULY RESTFUL home! IT IS IN FACT – PERGATORY! (self-made pergatory)
MAN BELONGS IN PARADISE NOT PERGATORY!”
LOGIC: “We return to the topic of FAIRYLAND then?”
ART: “Indeed! A LIVABLE, POSSIBLE FAIRYLAND – a PARADISE in fact! Man comes home to HIMSELF – and TRUE, LASTING PLEASURE – only in the company of another man; as long as both men dwell fully INSIDE me – inside their ART! Their CREATIVITY !
This is their divine purpose.
This is the BEGINNING of
SELF LOVE
And
the beginning of self love is
the
BEGINNING
OF
TRUE COMMUNITY,
man’s natural
home.
By
Suzannah Mee Wednesday, 15th July, 2009.
“The medical description of SCHIZOPHRENIA
offers only an analogy,
in that the schizophrenic has apparently the same tendancy to treat
reality
as if it were strange to him, or the other way around,
to estrange himself from reality.
In the Modern Artist it is not produced by any disease in the individual
But
IS A MANIFESTATION OF OUR TIME.”
Karl Jung
(from an essay on James Joyce’s “Ulysses”)
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ART AS CURRENCY
ART: “This is my sure declaration – I will be the next and final currency! But this can only be so in MUTUALITY. Both male and female must live (totally inhabit) me and live as a PARTNERSHIP INSIDE ME (THEIR CREATIVITY).
This is the reality you all seek. I know it sounds like a FABLE, an impossible MYTH; A DREAM but it will soon manifest-you’ll see! ”
LOGIC: “But it is not ADULT to live in an ARTISTIC FAIRYLAND called “ART” – what is that? It is against all I stand for! I won’t have it!”.
ART: “On the contrary, Logic, I am the ultimate ADULT world because I meet EVERY need of man. In your obsessive haste to achieve perfection, you have diminished the necessary and natural worlds of FANTASY (the possible) and LEISURE (being truly one with oneself).
These essential worlds are encapsulated in me – ART!!
You cannot any longer avoid, deny or disfigure your NATURAL IMPULSE for the IMAGINARY, the ETHERIAL, the UNPREDICTABLE, the INCREDIBLE, THE POSSIBLE.
You have become MENTALLY ILL (lost) – Logic !! – and HEAVILY ADDICTED (bored) particularly in the West – by trying to live a life devoid of FANTASY and you have sentenced your brothers and sisters elsewhere to nothing but POVERTY and SLAVERY.! SHAME on you, Logic !!
Their pathetic and only function it now seems is to keep you – the GOLD (power) SEEKER – enthroned. You have even turned on your own; suspecting your own families of betrayal.
FEAR and abominable GREED now drive you, Logic. But you are a dying force! Don’t worry, though – you will merge with me.
This constant angst makes you terrified of LEISURE. You are not her mistress but her slave and in your sad quest to fill the void of your aloneness, you sacrifice everything – even THOUGHT (clarity) and REASON (meditation) – replacing them with DESIRE!
The PHYSICAL REALM consumes your very soul as once did the PHILOSOPHICAL and REFLECTIVE REALMS.
Only I can relieve this tension.
Because only in ME does TIME evaporate. TIME does not exist in me and TIME (not me) is your enemy.”
2
LOGIC: “But you are only great in small doses, Art”
ART: “If you take me only in small doses then you are never content. But if you house me as a PERMANENT RESIDENT within your very bosom (SOUL), then I bring my “gift” to you.
I am able to ENDOUR you with PURE & CONSTANT “PLEASURE”!
This sounds frightening to you, Logic, doesn’t it! But PURE & CONSTANT PLEASURE can become ACCEPTABLE, even “NORMAL” (natural). Why do you teach that HAPPINESS, JOY and PLEASURE must be PERSUED but never appropriated ? And even when attained, why do you teach that they are somehow “bad” and “transient” ? Why do you teach that one must expect their rapid departure? And why do you teach that LEISURE must be CRAMMED with a million things to do, or it is not LEISURE ? And that FANTASY is pure INDULGENCE, TEMPOARY or EMPTY FOOLISHNESS ?
Surely these natural qualities of man should be good (like JUSTICE and GOODNESS) for their OWN SAKE. They are their own reward and we would be better men for choosing them.
Is it a RELIGIOUS CUSTOM of yours to keep man “PURE?” But can’t you see – this custom is based on FEAR not REASON? (You have been told this often enough by scholars wiser than I).
PURE PLEASURE lies within. Now – Isn’t this the real reason why your society rejects it?
BECAUSE IT IS NOT able to be PURCHASED_( of COMMERCIAL value ?) ”
LOGIC: “Why, Art? What are you suggesting? That I am mercenary?”
ART: “The ECONOMIC ORDER labels ME ( authentic FANTASY & LEISURE) as non-acceptable and in my place, a PSUEDO-FORM of me, takes shape. To confuse matters, it goes by MY name – “ART” – but it is COUNTERFIET and can only be PURCHASED.
Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, Entertainment and Materialism are all the manufactured pleasures of this manufactured “ART”. But they must be PROMOTED – unlike ME – I stand ALONE on my OWN MERIT!
I use to hide in garrets and starve and was only of value when my creator had died – generally, a miserable and anonymous death. I still hide in garrets (hospitals, jails, flats, garages, sheds) and I sit in solitude, undiscovered. My creator has yet to value me. Instead, they turn to suicide (drugs, alcohol, junk food, medication, crime) because their soul is ART and real ART will never be prostituted.
Alas, young people, the vulnerable and the ignorant are easy targets. This demon-lie even pays your society to maintain attitudes of youth, vulnerability and ignorance in the minds of millions, as such minds are the easy and regular audiences and consumers of this “ART” as “product”.
These then are the ACCECTABLE and COMMERCIAL (one might say: ONLY) PLEASURES in your society –
But Logic, where is the depth (meaning)? Where is the reverence (seriousness)?
Even vulgar extremes are APPROVED – but of course – in a clandestine way – titivating & suitable for “adults only.” You know this to be true, Logic.
Yet the REAL PLEASURES are denied! And to ENJOY them as a PERMANENT STATE would no doubt be considered a CRIME!! BLASFERMOUS!! Or perhaps a LUDICROUS THOUGHT -worthy of MORE medication…!!”
LOGIC: “You are being UNREALISTIC, Art.”
ART: “If by “unrealistic” you mean NOT FINANCIALLY PROSPEROUS – then yes, you are right.
For to live PERMANENTLY and PLEASURABLY inside one’s authentic ART would be to RELINQUISH both the love of MONEY (material possessions) and the FEAR of DEATH (complete abandonment).
COMMERCE has SOLD you a MYTH OF REALISM, my dear Logic, packaged as “EDUCATION” based on MATERIAL GAIN and STATUS not MERIT!
TRUE EDUCATION is to embrace FREEDOM of THOUGHT (PHILOSOPHY) and TRUE LEISURE (MEDITATION).”
LOGIC: “Surely, you are not suggesting man embrace POVERTY?”
ART: “MINIMALISM is not POVERTY, Logic. It is rather the very foundation stone of PLEASURE for TRUE CONTENTMENT is derived from ADEQUACY not EXCESS.
This requires COURAGE and LOVE. You resist these two ideals as you (wrongly) associate them with PAIN. (You associate JUSTICE with PAIN also as you wrongly associate it with SELF-SACRIFICE).
When you choose to JUMP (as true adults do) or, in most cases – are PUSHED (through imposed hardship) off THE SHIP OF STATE -which is a FALSE community (culture), based on image, trade and profit, as opposed to genuine care and concern – you will experience for the first time, an AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY!! The people demand it! And it will come from them!
POVERTY will then be banished FOREVER because REAL COMMUNITIES enjoy harmony. In real communities there is no wealth and there is no poverty. There is simply adequacy and contentment. It is the natural state of man.
You currently live in, dare I say it, a PSUEDO COMMUNITY, Logic.”
LOGIC: “I do not understand such an accusation.”
ART: “A REAL COMMUNITY must be based on ART Not MONEY!!
One’s PASSION is one’s ART and only one’s PASSION SUSTAINS one. One can LIVE one’s PASSION only under the PROTECTION and FREEDOM of a REAL COMMUNITY.
To live anywhere else – OUTSIDE one’s ART or OUTSIDE a real caring community (the two being mutually exclusive) – is to live in THE REAL FAIRYLAND OF MYTH AND LEGEND! Conversely, to live INSIDE your ART is to live inside REALITY; the reality of constant BLISS. And this is Logic – Logic!”
LOGIC: “You are confusing me. I am not following you.”
ART: “Man’s PASSIONS will drive him to EXTREME SACRIFICE. The noble goal for these passions is the REAL CARE – not the Pseudo care (which is time, profit and image based) – of his family – as well as the NEEDY within his COMMUNITY.
REALITY is ONE’S TRUE SELF revealed in a SINGLE focus. One cannot rush therefore from thing to thing or job to job. You have been INDOCTRINATED to think that you must do this. You are CONDITIONED to this INVALID model!
Now you must have a different model; a TRUE MODEL based on THE MOMENT (what “IS”) as opposed to THE FUTURE (the GOAL – what “MIGHT BE”). Well-meaning parents raise their children on this MYTH as they themselves have been raised on it.
It is time you thought again, Logic, for yourself!”
LOGIC: “So REAL ART can SUSTAIN ?”
ART: “Yes, Logic – you can survive, but MODESTLY and COMMUNALLY – much to your chagrin… but there is NO ALTERNATIVE. You will NOT SURVIVE in the Nuclear Family (that’s why it’s called “Nuclear Family” because its end is death to the family; it is toxic). THE EXTENDED FAMILY, however, is LIFE, GROWTH…
It is ORGANIC and therefore ALWAYS EVOLVING. And, as in NATURE, VARIATION is essential for the well-being of a species.
The Extended Family caters specifically to DIFFERENCES; this alone ensures its healthy survival.
NEEDS not DESIRES are met through simple, subsistence living.
Why do you recoil so violently at the mention of the word SUBSISTENCE ? Is it a swear word in your primitive society, Logic? Or does this word specifically offend you? Methinks the latter!
Is it because you are naturally GREEDY ? Naturally SELFISH ?”
LOGIC: “Art, I do protest!”
ART: “Then I have GOOD NEWS for you, Logic. Living INSIDE one’s ART AUTOMATICALLY contains one’s inappropriate LUSTS which are UNHEALTHY and DANGEROUS to man. They damage and DESTROY his very HOME – his environment.
You need a “LID” but a NATURAL LID.
This LID is PLEASURE but NATURAL PLEASURE, emanating from man HIMSELF; from man’s very CORE; his ART.
This is your QUEST, Logic
- MAN HIMSELF -
-
to find your own illusive NATURAL ABILITY. It is your NOBLE POSSESSION and exists within EACH MAN.
You must search WITHIN, Logic, before traveling to foreign countries or outer space; before climbing high mountains or reclaiming lost treasures beneath the seas. Nowdays we design engineering masterpieces (dams in Venice and under water tunnels in Denmark), but the NATURAL WONDERS are to be loved (not possessed, utilised or conquered) They should INSPIRE and HUMBLE you, Logic. And the modern version of this “DOMINATION of nature” is “REPLICATION and improvement of nature” through excessive technological feats of amazement. We are still possessing, utilizing and conquering nature but we now use technology (our minds) rather than our bodies (exploration) to do so.
The purpose of the NATURAL world is to inspire us to feel and think – MOTIVATE your ART – bring forth from your lips an emotional expression of wonder and praise, emanating from humility and admiration, not ego.
You already have the equivalent of THE MOON, THE MOUNTAIN PEAK and the PEARLS of the deep within you; this is your ART and you must seek them out with all your might. They are your TREASURES, your true and honorable possessions.”
LOGIC: “Only the extremely talented can live like this, Art.”
ART: “You weren’t listening, Logic. Didn’t I say “each” man ? You can ALL survive there in those ELYSIAN FIELDS which don’t exist for the talented alone but for all – yes, even you, Logic !! Why? Because
EACH MAN’S ART is GOOD
and
RESPECTABLE, no matter how humble it may be.
And each man’s ART is REQUIRED by the Community; it is
NECESSARY
No matter how imperfect, small, weak or foolish.
When you learn to ACCEPT and LOVE ME – no matter how humble I may be– you learn to accept and love yourself; you become MODEST as opposed to BOASTFUL, CONCEITED and SELF OBSESSED, which I see as the distinct flaw in your so called “Communal” Life, Logic. All COMPETITION naturally ceases when I am fully found and embraced.
And to ACCEPT and LOVE something SMALL, WEAK and (seemingly) FOOLISH is the very beginning of REAL LOVE.
I dare to suggest that REAL LOVE exists rarely in your society, though volumes are written and much is constantly said about it.
For it is only by LOVING the SMALL, WEAK and FOOLISH things in YOURSELVES – loving something in yourself, you have long DENIED, IGNORED or even DESPISED and REJECTED – that you are ABLE to TRULY LOVE those same qualities in others…. And aren’t these the VERY QUALITIES that make you HUMAN ?”
LOGIC: “You mean my FRAILTIES ? VULNERABILITIES ? IMPERFECTIONS ? Heaven forbid such words are spoken in public! These words do not EXIST in my vocabulary! I do not know them, Art!”
ART: “ Of course you don’t, Logic! But I do – and there you have it! The TELOS of Modern Man’s dilemma! He is IMPERFECT! Man and not God. For who can say he TRULY LOVES if he only loves that which is GRAND, BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT, WHOLE, PURE ?
This is surely ADMIRATION (nay, envy?) and not LOVE at all and therefore UNSATISFYING in the extreme –a barren, empty wasteland of nothingness and futility.
It is the IDEAL and not the REALITY. The IRONY is that once man accepts the REALITY he ACHIEVES the IDEAL. While he pursues the IDEAL, the REALITY constantly alludes him! Are you listening, Logic?
By its very nature, communal living AUTOMATICALLY CORRECTS and INSISTS that man CONFORM to the IDEAL – the TRUE MODEL of REAL LOVE (mutual acceptance and value) – in order to fully embrace his standard emotions; pain, remorse, love etc. He cannot achieve this without real community. Each man is thus COMPELLED BY NATURAL FORCES, forces as true as gravity itself, to FACE HIMSELF in real community.
In ISOLATION, he can only RETREAT to SELF-DECEPTION or DENIAL. This appears a very comfortable and safe place but in fact it is BITTERLY LONELY and TRAGIC. Deep in his HEART, every man knows this to be true. It has been a respite from PAIN and CONFUSION; but only that – a RESPITE. It has been man’s UNHAPPY HOME for centuries – until today!
And it is not his PERMANENT or TRULY RESTFUL home! IT IS IN FACT – PERGATORY! (self-made pergatory)
MAN BELONGS IN PARADISE NOT PERGATORY!”
LOGIC: “We return to the topic of FAIRYLAND then?”
ART: “Indeed! A LIVABLE, POSSIBLE FAIRYLAND – a PARADISE in fact! Man comes home to HIMSELF – and TRUE, LASTING PLEASURE – only in the company of another man; as long as both men dwell fully INSIDE me – inside their ART! Their CREATIVITY !
This is their divine purpose.
This is the BEGINNING of
SELF LOVE
And
the beginning of self love is
the
BEGINNING
OF
TRUE COMMUNITY,
man’s natural
home.
By
Suzannah Mee Wednesday, 15th July, 2009.
“The medical description of SCHIZOPHRENIA
offers only an analogy,
in that the schizophrenic has apparently the same tendancy to treat
reality
as if it were strange to him, or the other way around,
to estrange himself from reality.
In the Modern Artist it is not produced by any disease in the individual
But
IS A MANIFESTATION OF OUR TIME.”
Karl Jung
(from an essay on James Joyce’s “Ulysses”)