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MEMORANDA

much.

[[left margin]] [[strikethrough]]Engineering is the right idea [[/strikethrough]] [[left margin]]

This is no age for art, which has had its day. Engineering, radio, movies etc are the growing [[strikethrough]] arts [[/strikethrough]] creations. When art was having its day - it was  unself-conscious, & now in order not to admit its pastness, people analyse the old art & try to recreate it backwards, through self conscious analysis of what it is, as judged from the past. Analysis of art shows that simplicity was the great result, & so the city people worship the natural because they have lost it through over-consciousness. [[strikethrough]] This [[/strikethrough]] It is normal to be natural, & therefore they are [[strikethrough]] minus [[/strikethrough]] below normal now, & in worshipping the natural, they only prove they are less than normal, whereas they should by this time be higher than normal. (partly Henry's idea)

The abundance of knowledge & the ease with which it can be obtained nowadays, (like canned food) flusters people with flourishment, & takes the edge off ambitions. If someone [[strikethrough]] go [[/strikethrough]] wants adventure, he goes to movies, instead of to the sea


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to be a pirate or whaler etc. If he is in love - he eases his anxiety to get whom he loves by seeing it done in the movies. If he would be a historian, he reads current biographies, & sees historical movies, & hears historical talks on the radio, instead of going to Persia as an archeologist, & the result is that his amition [[ambition]] is continually eased & satisfied in cheap superficial ways, from outside stimulation, & therefore unless one has terrific inside stimulation, one ends up having done nothing. (partly Lu's idea)

When artists show in art exhibits this happens too, because they are often allowed to show prematurely, & so their amibition has its edge taken off, just when it should be driven hardest.

Art has been forced to become a personal expression of the artist just for lack of an ideal that is bigger than oneself nowadays such as the church, or patriotism, or Imperial Domains etc. This self expression is what makes "one man shows" essential nowadays, & causes premature recognition.