“ Well, we’re at a level of crisis about what the point of art is, what the point of creativity is. In many ways I think the cultural arena is in the same kind of crisis as the food chain, where we are eating foods that mostly make us sick and mostly make us obese. And there’s pretty much no conversation about it. And that food supply is controlled by conglomerates whose primary goal is profit and that’s pretty much what our cultural arena is like. And so we have a situation where people’s natural healing capacities, people’s natural creativities, people’s extraordinarily ability to make things new is being channeled and stifled and narrowed into the most simple-minded products for profit. […]
It is stunning to me that we cannot see it well enough to be uninterested in it or that we’re just so OK with it — that we just like to buy it. Tricia Rose on the creative crisis of rap and art. (via hopelessvalley)
It is stunning to me that we cannot see it well enough to be uninterested in it or that we’re just so OK with it — that we just like to buy it. Tricia Rose on the creative crisis of rap and art. (via hopelessvalley)
(Source: providence.thephoenix.com, via hopelessvalley)
