Art Is A Framework, A Kind Of

Today, What Most People Live In, Or With, Is The Less-than-nuclear Family. Working Fathers Are Absent From Home During Most Of The Day, The Children Are Schooled Outside It, And Practically All Women Who Work For Money Must Go Outside To Earn Their Living.

The Common Impulse Is Not To Sustain A Marriage By Finding Satisfaction Elsewhere, But To End The Marriage And Set Up A New One Which Will Provide The Comfort Lacking In The First.

Myth, Legend, And Ritual ... Function To Maintain A Status Quo. That Makes Them Singularly Bad In Coping With Change, Indeed Counterproductive, For Change Is The Enemy Of Myth.

Reaction Isn't Action - That Is, It Isn't Truly Creative.

Art Is A Framework, A Kind Of Living Trellis, On Which Public Dreaming Can Shape Itself.