Responsibility of the Artist

A few ideas have been running through my head about the nature of how ideas are propagated and disseminated in our culture. I’ve been mulling over the “food chain” of ideas:

-philosophers/theologians/scientists - the generators of ideas, of new ways of looking at reality

-artists - the communicators of those ideas, transmitting them to the (pop) culture at large.

-audience/culture - consumers of those ideas

Discuss.

In the meantime, my column for Intake. “Living Life in Light of Death.”


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