On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, david wrote:
Louigi Verona wrote:
Real talent leads a person.
The whole idea "real talent leads a person" is one of the fallacies
that came from the Romantic movement. As if the "artist" was some
special divine being, possessed by the spirit of the gods.
No, I think there is some truth to that, that artistic inclination will
drive someone. I tried to quit music for several years, because of a
lot of the same reasons we've been talking about...the state of music in
the 90's and 2000's. I came back to it for reasons I couldn't justify
even to myself. I simply had to write songs. It didn't even matter if
I could find reason to tell myself why.
Also, some of the Romantics were insane (the reasons don't matter).
Back then, insanity was frequently not treated at all - the insane who
weren't a danger to others were left to wander their own lives ...
That happens now in big cities too. I live in Chicago, and I once saw
a man standing on a bus stop bench with a newspaper held up in one
hand, screaming at traffic as it drove by. People mostly just ignored
him. I don't know if he was an artist, but he was probably insane. :)
Still, it's probably better than the 50's when they used to use mental
patients for drug experiments and give them shock treatments.
--
+ Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
+ UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
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