Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
White Papers
Parity
Art is a celebration of life, and serves every generation of life, but when a society of generations stops celebrating life, the art spirit is offended, and assumes a presidiary station with regard to all else.
The influence of art must be equal to that of science. If science and its inevitable high technology overruns and dominates, and this domination becomes protracted throughout enough generations, science will have bred a human condition from which corporate states, and most certainly academic mandates would indeed impose themselves over the Will of everyone else after becoming the sole proprietor of knowledge, religion, and expression, through which its various corporate laws, standardized aesthetics, and aye!..its articles of faith would control and direct everyone's life. For the individual, there would be no more Bill of Rights because it would be viewed as a threat..that is, to hold that 'mere individual has equal value or more, than an entire corporate entity,' the idea of citizen versus corporate would be unthinkable! in a corporate dark age. A corporate entity has no flesh and blood, yet would have a voracious appetite for it, having been given sovereign jurisprudence, principle without sensibility, moral without sense, objective aesthetics, and a prescribed belief system that everyone would be expected to eat everyday, and digest in the evening.
Currently, development of science is threefold. For the good of a person, for the good of a corporate entity, and for the good of special interests. But, in a corporate dark age, it would be only for the good of the corporate entity. A high tech darkage can evolve with inevitably more than two corporate dinosaurs competing for the same resources. Where is the celebration of life here having evolved back into the wilderness and dark caves of a corporate high'tech mind?
Indeed, without equal parity between art and science, the more advanced that sci'tech becomes, the more it becomes the instrument of society's ruin. A society that does not value equally, science and art may exist for a limited time, but essentially un'wise and base.
Enduring works of art however dark or bright, are characterized by an artist's celebration, but cultural upheavals from science and high tech insight and invention has all but preempted an individual's celebration of life. We are owned by technology as much as we own it, and being so pre'occupied with it, we lose sensitivity to our environment and gain academic art pundits and critics, those creatures who missed their calling in science. Sensitivity to the individual and environment must be preserved for a high tech and information society to survive.
Art must not be dominated by academic art values. For this end, art shall maintain its imperative for as long as necessary, subjugating and employing high tech means, as much as necessary, until art has achieved parity with science and its high technology.