by Phoebe Clark
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| (image: Mareena Metsmaa) |
Constant rushing blur around, pushing forward - faster easier better
Follow trends, abide by rules, be the same as the crowd but come up with the next
Big thing. Tangible, effective, sleek, aesthetic, useful
Straight off the conveyor belt like
Reading Romeo and Juliet again, hoping they survive.
Our reality, or something better, was predicted long ago in the
Minds of H.G Wells, Mary Shelley, Aldous Huxley… Do you even know those names?
You don’t think millionaires come up with their own ideas, do you?
You must be mad as a hatter, but we are all mad here.
Demonstrate the proportions of the human body without referencing the Vitruvian Man.
Make sense of the golden rule without Da Vinci’s woodcuts.
Gain insight into medieval Christian theology and philosophy without Divine Comedy.
Learn from the Nazi takeover without reading The Diary of a Young Girl.
Go on I dare you.
Physics textbooks are nothing without Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Be a midwife without Studies of the foetus in the womb.
Lobby for world peace without the Guernica.
Speak without the Canterbury Tales.
You are nothing without
Art,
Poetry,
Plays,
Books,
And the people behind them.
Money. Money. Think. Everything has,
Been done. Before. Textbooks can’t give. You the next. Big
Idea.
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