Why do we even want to contribute to a culture so austere and calculating and uncaring anyway? Like, kind of a chicken/egg situation. It is all just impetus to

Why do we even want to contribute to a culture so austere and calculating and uncaring anyway? Like, kind of a chicken/egg situation. It is all just impetus to go and find the prior form of "art" we have had all along. Art need not be about the Artist and her Works, or about creating something for some kind of vague consumption. Art can be about collectivity and shared truths. Art used to be about speaking to God or whatever, and whoever actually placed the pieces of glass were very secondary. At my most optimistic, I feel like some turn like this (but probably more secular) is inevitable. People need to get stuff out, and if this pressure is not relieved by our current ideas of labor and such, it will find a way nonetheless like water through stone. http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf