(Teatro de la Danza, Centro Cultural del Bosque, 23 October 2016)
It is a scary sight: a cargo cult of art. It is the inefficiency that is scary, for it is a symptom of a faulty mechanism.
It is a fallacy to believe that the meaningful must be ugly, depressing, or incoherent. It is easy to veil the incoherent in mystery and to assert that the broken is profound. It is the solution that is hard and requires artistic genius.
Markets promote art (along with porn, Teslas, and laundromats). So do private donations and carefully designed government programmes (especially at early stages, when the means of expression is honed, not the message). If a product would not sell---if a prototype would only attract captive audience---it has no merit.
It is the shift of the focus away from problems and towards solutions that is a key to prosperity.
24 October 2016
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