Among the lifelong vocations of the artist is the fight against self-censorship. In a functionally insane society, the colonization of one's consciousness is composed of multiple layers - most of them undetected. To create something worthwhile, these levels of captured consciousness must be bypassed or exposed and dissolved.
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A central role of art in societies that have divorced themselves from ancient, Earth-rooted wisdom traditions is to make visible the crimes, idiocies and daily miseries that have become normalized and therefore invisible to the society's members.
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