Art Is Anything You Can Get Away

Like Primitive, We Now Live In A Global Village Of Our Own Making, A Simultaneous Happening. It Doesn't Necessarily Mean Harmony And Peace And Quiet But It Does Mean Huge Involvement In Everybody Else's Affairs.

We Are All Robots When Uncritically Involved With Our Technologies.

Relativity Theory Forced The Abandonment, In Principle, Of Absolute Space And Absolute Time.

In Big Industry New Ideas Are Invited To Rear Their Heads So They Can Be Clobbered At Once. The Idea Department Of A Big Firm Is A Sort Of Lab For Isolating Dangerous Viruses.

Professionalism Merges The Individual Into Patterns Of Total Environment. Amateurism Seeks The Development Of The Total Awareness Of The Individual And The Critical Awareness Of The Groundrules Of Society. The Amateur Can Afford To Lose. The Professional Tends To Classify And Specialise, To Accept Uncritically The Groundrules Of The Environment. The Groundrules Provided By The Mass Response Of His Colleagues Serve As A Pervasive Environment Of Which He Is Contentedly Unaware. The 'expert' Is The Man Who Stays Put.