My sister bought an old book on acting from the library store. It was a very old used book. She found an equally old and used foodstamp in it. It was ironic.
Older societies, such as Greeks, had a high(er) regard for artists. I’m assuming that’s why such societies where the ones that had the largest philosophic, artistic, and scientific impact. Perhaps one might even draw a link between the prosperity of a civilization and by the way they treat their artists and innovators. There often seems to be a love-hate relationship in regards to the innovator, and too often genius “dies out” because of the inability of the times to recognize genius or be open to innovation. Einstein was working in a patenting office when he came up with E=mc2. Tesla died in obscurity in a New York hotel room. There are many other examples, and far too many undocumented ones. I say undocumented because that individual simply couldn’t “hold in there” any longer. The “hold in there” blurb seems used so often I would have to question if it doesn’t turn into a haphazard lazy insult along the lines of; “yeah, keep being stupid enough to do what you do…” I’m often drawn to the question that; if all innovators die out then wouldn’t the progress and prosperity of that civilization inevitably follow? How much further along would that civilization, society, system, company, or culture, be if it valued it’s innovators, and saw through that misconception of the genius as being eccentric, and useless.
