“Winning” and “Losing”, the Feud by Contagion of Human Misery, 6

However, in the absence of an authentic artistic point of view, there is no model to set course for. And in the absence of a good model, things and people go into a spin and cartwheel. When the artist abdicates his or her thorny but absolutely vital and indispensable role, he or she moves from ahead to aside, within, or even behind. In doing so, he or she not only ceases to be part of the solution, but he or she also becomes part of the problem. A part that can tip the scales.

Alas, too many artists start as whistle−blowers and end up as supporters of evil, contributing to promote as the cool thing what they once fought. In short, they have unwittingly slipped into either the “winning” or “losing” personality, and now it is at the foundation of their art – witness their jeopardised lives and premature demises. In regards to this, inspect closer how exactly artists’ untimely deaths are sanctified: they tend to be seen as the obvious coherent ending of an irreconcilable fight between the world’s conformism and the artist’s nonconformist conformism, founded on death wish infiltrated behaviours; as a result that sure enough artist’s death is sanctified as the cool thing to do and imitate, in the face of the evil world who hates poor martyrs. The world and the artist are not realizing they are both being screwed and set against one another by the same third party. Do you know that typical scene in certain comedy films? Two people are scowling at one another up−close, ready to come to blows, then their looks suddenly change, indicating they’ve realised something, and they slowly and simultaneously turn their gazes to the camera… that’s the moment the third party knows his or her camouflage is blown…

Given such premises, it’s worth mentioning, so it won’t escape nor come as a surprise, the almost paradoxical case of being PTS of self. Far from being excluded is the possibility of the source of oppression being nobody else but self. Sure, all depression apparently originating from inside oneself is one way or another the result of oppression received from someone else outside; but the source of oppression may at the moment be long gone or far away.