Saturday, November 23, 2024
The Creative March to the Gulag
From a psychological standpoint, many actors, artists, and musicians share a common inclination of needing to escape or transcend earthly reality. It could probably be said that such an attribute also inclines many of them to alcoholism, drug use, and dabbling in various “spiritual” quests.
The sphere of business is quite the opposite and is most successful when dealing with the world on a practical level. Business people are not seeking to escape this world or create a new one. They wish to use what is available in reality and maintain an environment that affords success. In the many instances in history where an artistic temperament has wished to impose their idealistic values on the practical needs and wishes of common citizens, the result has been catastrophic. People will resist such imposition and the planners of a “new world” then become ever more fervent in their need to eliminate opposition. The first task of any budding “revolution” is self-preservation and elimination of obstacles and opposition.
The leadership of the “National Socialist” (NAZI) movement in Germany included many from the mystically and artistically inclined. The Nazi’s, like the communists, were collectivist revolutionaries seeking to build a new world.
Whether allied with the “right” or “left,” the artistic temperament is often drawn to extremism of some form. Unlike someone like Donald Trump, who merely wants to fix things, the radicals in acting, art, and entertainment want to create a new world, but never can because they are so divorced from this one.
