Moderate are for suckers/parasites who don't know which boat to take. They normally just survive longer however.
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The embrace of bleakness and grey in art points to the decay of 'creativity' and 'imagination' as was perviously known as. This embrace of new idea/concept IS creativity in a way, but now art has become a tool of public opinion and individual expression rather than the escapism that it used to be.
Possibly just a change of phase and era. Possibly will pass too. But for now, art is as politics. To rule. To influence. To impress. To capture attention.
Is it a good thing?
I sound too post-modernist for my own liking, but I have to say tat it is neither a good thing nor a bad thing - just a shift of a page - inevitable. After all, what is right and wrong?
WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH AFTER ALL?
Ben Ning, Creative Practitioner