We focus on our personal lives in the contemporary environment. I am talking about Art here. The artists focus on their personal sufferings expecting to demonstrate universalities in the pattern of their own lives. Conversely they will vicariously suffer the hardship of other, less powerful groups of people. The art has become more—I would say Calvinistic, severe or Augustinian. It focuses upon Sin, if you will. It has taken on a Manichean cloak. I have taken a survey of art activities around the world through the lens of ArtPapers. (http://www.artpapers.org/) Now before I go further, I wish to distinguish myself from what everybody else is doing. Every artist, except for the plagiarists and forgers, wants to do this, I guess. The ArtPapers lens gives a world-wide perspective which is not otherwise available. The writing is a bit plodding, frequently the work of associate museum curators and academic artists. They have Revolutionary stance which becomes predictable and which is tolerated by big art. This being said, there are many interesting things going on around the world right now. It might be interesting to link up with some people who are doing interesting things in other parts of the world. The State Department has been deficient in this area in recent years. It might be good to find people who don’t hate us in foreign countries. How could they hate Crazy Water? Or Crazy Arms?
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