each others' mirror It's interesting, feeling useless in a society that has no desire for poetry unless it appears in a commercial setting—and the nature of poetry, like style or rhythm, is that it can't be paid for. In America we have gratuitous violence, but no gratuitous or voluntary art. Art and commerce are inextricably mixed, and the highest and best art, the kind that can really change the world, is today to be found in fashion and advertising. Those who aren't conscious of The Look are simply not artists, or they are bad artists. Andy Warhol understood this very well, being a man in love with his own reflection in the public eye. Today it is necessary to see yourself on television, hear yourself on the radio, or appear in magazines before you can exist in a social sense. This is an amazing reversal of everything we have believed throughout history!—everything the sober-minded and wise have preached throughout history. People are being swept away on a tide of unreason, and social relations, once so complex and unspeakably subtle, now cease to exist. The media have become our mirror, whereas before—always in the past—we were each others' mirror.
	location: Denver, Colorado date: May 1993 average rating: [not rated] your rating (0-10):