We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very
Words of wisdom there, from a very wise author. What seems different here, to me, is that with capitalism there is no central authority to whom we can protest. No king, no pope, no judge, no capitol. Capitalism has no center. It is all around us like the air we breathe. Most of us have grown up in it and live as both its victims and victimizers, prisoners of a system that employs us to engineer and implement our own destruction.
I agree that art can be a source for change. Good art involves imagination, and we need all the imagination we can get to find our way out of this.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very
often in our art, the art of words."
- URSULA K. LE GUIN
1929-2018
Words of wisdom there, from a very wise author. What seems different here, to me, is that with capitalism there is no central authority to whom we can protest. No king, no pope, no judge, no capitol. Capitalism has no center. It is all around us like the air we breathe. Most of us have grown up in it and live as both its victims and victimizers, prisoners of a system that employs us to engineer and implement our own destruction.
I agree that art can be a source for change. Good art involves imagination, and we need all the imagination we can get to find our way out of this.