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So it is becoming even more apparent that the structures and institutions of leaders directing the masses inverts with the leaders following the dictates of the people, especially where personal freedoms and dignity is concerned.  That it is a habit of being human of attempting to find permanence in a natural system where everything is temporary and only exists in a series of states of being.

Even more, the distinctions of religion and personal belief systems no longer serves the needs of a State or the world's imperialists to define and control one people from another in order to perpetuate the programs of nationality and the consumption of wealth by means of warfare to keep the many impoverished.  It appears more clearly that there is no middle ground in the struggle for survival; that either an organism or species or people either is growing in life or in decay.

Especially when the various crises of basic needs such as food, water and health are being further threatened while the world's population grows exponentially in a fragile system that is the natural processes of earth; those that exist in the insular world of wealth and privilege become more and more unaware of the real threat that surrounds them, as can be proved by many historical accounts from the Romans to the Maya.  If it is humanities mistake that has been committed again and again, it is the abandonment of the principle of the concern for the lowest in society, so that none can claim guilt from profiting from suffering and misery instead of actual contribution.

If society is an organism, from a biological/anthropological view, there is less likely a chance that one will be very successful, no matter what circumstances of comfort or plenty; that when hard times hit, the small wound that a hunting lion for example, will suffer will grow into a major liability when resources are scarce.

So also, in the struggle for not only our survival, but our progress that such things such as climate change be taken seriously even if it later proves to not be so. The very fact that the most wealthy nation in the world spends billions on warfare (death) and not on humanitarianism (life) suggests a pathology that no technology can solve if not in the hands of those who possess insight into the subtleties and nuances of being human. When an empire prides itself on the golden chalice of pride and does not take into account that that chalice is filled with innocent blood, it is indeed cursed by its own hand.

So with this and my own accounting of motivations, besides art for art's sake- one cannot be an artist and antisocial at the same time: that the very creative spirit that fuels the work is of the basic desire for expansion, evolution and change.  Even alone, the inspired realize that they do not exist in a vacuum, that no matter how "far out" they may appear, actually they are only reprocessing old data and information into something new and useful or a vessel by which millions of years of evolution reveals itself via one small adjustment of trajectory. That although most work seems sublime and undefined, once in awhile, if given closer attention, the work may be realized into something that is quite obvious, practical and necessary.

Most of the artists and musicians that have inspired me have had some sort of philosophy of what life was about, or a vision; and most always desired to be on the cutting edge not for recognition, but to serve as societies' conscience to an extent. They ultimately had to make their own way, getting rid of conditioning and inherited beliefs based on dualistic either/or thinking or motives based on fear.