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Art can be a vital form of communication. Often, in the past, the truth about society and culture has been couched allegorically in book, opera, picture or musical work.

The artists (writers, musicians, painters) in Europe kept alive the idea of revolution and educated people in general that the monarchy were not gods nor even chosen by gods, else the French Revolution would never have happened because all the people would have still been fearful that they were opposing ‘God’s Will.’

This is why artists and intellectuals are among the first to be supressed in a totalitarian government. The art of the culture is then usurped by rubbish that is no more than propaganda, such as the ‘art’ of the Nazis.

Tap into your creative genius 

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Certainly not all forms of communication are good. Some forms of communication can be quite harmful; lies, malicious gossip, propaganda and memes.

” ‘A meme,’ said the Doctor, ‘is a unit of cultural transmission. A term coined by Richard Dawkins. It’s a…concept that proagates itself within a culture by a process of imitation. Like a tune, or how you tie shoelaces, marriage, language or wearing a hat. The idea gets passed on from person to person, spreading, transmitting and, in a sense, evolving‘ Jonathan Morris, The Tomorrow Windows.

Our culture is full of such memes and they mostly serve the purpose of keeping people in their place. They teach things like it is a virtue to be ‘poor but honest,’ and ‘your reward is in heaven.’

The are many memes that apply to artists and either keep them down or discourage people from exercising their artistic expression. One of the most popular memes of this type is the ’starving artist,’ closely allied with the meme that artists don’t need compensation for their work because they just love doing what they’re doing.

Be the superstar you were meant to be. 

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great german philosopher and writer once said that; “To create something, you must be something.”

It comes down to how you think of yourself. Do you think of yourself as an artist? I use the term artist always in the broadest sense, meaning that the word includes musicians, writers, painters and, really, anyone who takes pride in a job well done.
If you think of yourself as an artist, stop and reflect on how important artists might be to society and culture in general.

Unfortunately, we live in a time when many people think that art and culture in general is some sort of luxury. It’s something a society indulges in when things are prosperous and people have lots of free time to kill. Some people see it as a passtime of the rich to show off their status.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

In the first place, without artists, eveything, evey business, every product, every service would sink down to the same level of mediocrity and the economy would go right down the toilet.

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