Re:The Dangerous Effects of Reading
by stcredzero on Thursday December 29, 2011 @03:15PM
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We don't stop creating because we are consuming more. It is other way round. We are consuming more because we are afraid of creating.
I think that is very key. If one can convince a population that they are not capable of mastery then you can make them feel inferior and keep them as your subjects. This is why so many royal courts funded and raised up artists and musicians and claimed the culture they created as theirs. The inverse is also why so many independence movements have also grown up beside artistic and intellectual movements.
I think that is very key. If one can convince a population that they are not capable of mastery then you can make them feel inferior and keep them as your subjects. This is why so many royal courts funded and raised up artists and musicians and claimed the culture they created as theirs. The inverse is also why so many independence movements have also grown up beside artistic and intellectual movements.