Orts #929

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
     -- James Baldwin (1924-1987), in a 1962 essay, The Creative Process


Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify.
     -- Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) , in a 1972 address to the American Academy of Arts and Letters


Today, the wealthiest three families in the country [U.S.A.] own more wealth than the bottom half of the American people and the top 1 percent owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.
     -- Bernie Sanders, New York Times, June 2, 2019

 

cognitive dissonance in Sunset Harbour:
a bitterly amusing piece about oncoming disaster