While the modern society is teaching the next generations, how to stop feeling anything and everything, we wonder, devoid of any feeling where the artist really stands in this modern society. Or perhaps the modern society doesn't need any feeling or any artists because everything turned into a grand spectacle of society by the technological advancement !! With something like "to feel is to sin", how could we differentiate between a machine and a man in future ? The poet raised a lot many questions regarding arts and artists in this book of essays.
From "A Miscellany Revised" By E. E. Cummings.
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Simple people, people who don’t exist, prefer things which don’t exist, simple things.
“Good” and “bad” are simple things. You bomb me = “bad.” I bomb you = “good.” Simple people (who, incidentally, run this socalled world) know this (they know everything) whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very, very ignorant and really don’t know anything.
Nothing, for simple knowing people, is more dangerous than ignorance. Why?
Because to feel something is to be alive.
As if an educated modern man by nature / and by definition must be a man who lacks all sorts of feeling. The society is intimidated by the people who are actually "alive" because it cannot make them confirm into their mould of civilization.
Ignorant people really must be educated; that is, they must be made to stop feeling something, and compelled to begin knowing or measuring everything. Then (then only) they won’t threaten the very nonexistence of what all simple people call civilization.
Very luckily for you and me, the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on “good” and “bad” alike. He is an artist.
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Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn’t matter a very good God damn . . .
From "A Miscellany Revised" By E. E. Cummings.
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