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UNIVERSAL_ART

                                    February  6, 2004
              
Suppose...
Imagine...

Everyone an artist.  
   
   Everyone lives 
   up to their    
   full potential. 
               
      All are good, and competent,
      if perhaps not great.       
                     
Would there then be any market 
at all for art? 
   
      Why pay for another man's dreams
      when you have your own?         
                       
         When you're fully capable
         of realizing them?       
                                  

Do we need to have "stars",       
do we need to have "great artists"?

Someone we can worship
for being so much
deeper, so much more
skilled that we are?

Wouldn't it be better 
if we were all just as          An observation from my years of
deep, just as skilled?          reading sf fanzine interviews: 
                                                               
                                   After a while,              
                                   writer's stop               
                                   reading.                    
                                                               
                                They say things like           
                                "I don't have a lot            
                                of time to read".              
                                                               
                                I suspect that they            
                                just don't feel like           
                                anyone else can tell them      
                                anything anymore.              

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