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Saturday, May 30, 2009
If diamonds were to suddenly fall from the sky, and be everywhere, would it be unreasonable for the people and companies that depend on the limiting of their accessibility, to say to the culture, "Do not pick them up, and if you do, you are stealing & therefore immoral!"
This is a loose, admittedly weak but also in its way powerful analogy in that it reminds that if diamonds did fall from the sky everywhere, they'd be less coveted, thus less monetarily valuable as they are now since so hard to find. Yet, similar to real art, a real diamond is beautiful unto itself and thus independent of its being rare or not. It is simply, truly beautiful; perhaps like a wildflower would be as a diamond to an alien who had never before seen (or even imagined) a flower. Anyway, just because wildflowers can't be sold because they're so abundant (thus it is impossible to limit access to them) this doesn't mean they are not special. Likewise with art, I think this freeing up of its marketability would quite literally change the world.
I come from a position of desiring that the capitalizing, or the very industry of art itself, in every way, be utterly destroyed. For this, is for art to live as if it were never born and could never die. It is to be set free upon culture as an organic influence far beyond what has been able to enlighten us via our tv-land world and capitalistic/marxist blended glimpses of what we call fun and insight. This all has been *nothing* to what we could be!
I think of this as a freeing of potential beyond what most seem able to imagine. I believe we are all., as a culture, truly so much more than our imaginations give us credit for.
