What Society Requires From Art

Great Writers Leave Us Not Just Their Works, But A Way Of Looking At Things.

We Are In A Double Bind. We Are Expected To Feel Inferior Not Only As Women, But Because We Are Old.

Power Is Not A Thing To Be Owned. But If You Believe That It Is Such A Thing, Losing It Becomes A Possibility To Fear. That Fear, I Think, Is One Reason For The Dark Projections Of A Catastrophic Future That Are So Widespread, In Our Dual Society. The Present Powerful, Being Committed To Polarization, Expect That Any New Deal Will Overturn The One That Set Them In Authority; That The Last Shall Be First And The First Last, Role Reversal Everywhere, Men As Slaves, Women As Masters, In A Revolution Of Contradiction.

What Society Requires From Art ... Is That It Function As An Early Warning System.

We Expect Definitions To Tell Us Not Only What Is, But What To Do About It; To Show Us How The World Fits Together And How Its Different Parts Connect And Work. ... A Label Is The First Step Toward Action.