We Do Not Need To Be Able

To Consider Powerful Souls As If They Were A Useful Public Resource Is Quite Foreign To Our Customs. In A Small Sense It Is Undemocratic, For It Assumes That Some People Really Know Better In A Way That Must Seem Arbitrary To Most. In A Large Sense It Is Certainly Democratic, In That It Makes The Great Man Serve As A Man.

It Is By Losing Himself In The Objective, In Inquiry, Creation, And Craft, That A Man Becomes Something.

Let Me Formulate The Artistic Disposition As Follows: It Is Reacting With One's Ideal To The Flaw In Oneself And In The World, And Somehow Making That Reaction Formation Solid Enough In The Medium So That It Indeed Becomes An Improved Bit Of Real World For Others.

A Successful Revolution Establishes A New Community. A Missed Revolution Makes Irrelevant The Community That Persists. And A Compromised Revolution Tends To Shatter The Community That Was, Without An Adequate Substitute.

We Certainly Have At Present The Dismal Situation That The Most Imaginative Men Are Directed By A Group, The Top Managers, Who Are Among The Least.