Vissi d'arte

The treatment of the artist in the US is perhaps not very gracious.

We will pay some basketball player millions of $$ but pay no attention to the trained artist, the singer, the intuitive artist who leads our souls on a vision-quest.

I'll grant that the artist may have a somewhat longer life than a sportsperson, and opera houses are not usually able to seat 50,000 souls, like many sports venues. Still...I'm not persuaded the sight of a group of men pummelling each other, in a war-like attempt to score goals (capture the hill, take prisoners), is actually ennobling!

Indeed, quite the contrary seems the result.

Are we cretins, utterly devoid of souls? Or is it that we are so deluded, so convinced that being tethered to a desk all day long, in some soul-numbing exercise in futility is of value and the end purpose of our lives!

One does this solely to make money for the CEOs, CFOs, etc., because, despite the work YOU do, none of that money shows up in your pay-packet! So, one needs to ask, how much value DO you have? Not much according to the pay-master. This is tragic.