PHF

I liked reading about purity and innocence in the readings, although I don't think the word's "purity and innocence" were used.

There is definitely a relationship between artists and children. Artists have a very pure almost naive idea of what they can and cannot do, and then they just do it. I always thought the birth of the punk rock scene in the late seventies was a perfect example of creativity and innocence (minus all the heroin use). The scene was just a bunch of kids with no knowledge of how to play instruments. They felt that all of their musical heroes had begun to mock themselves. All these kids then started picking up instruments and writing songs, caring very little about all the technical jargon associated with playing music. They just had fun.

Children are honest and selfish, and they are the only humans that can away with it for a certain number of years before being fed into institutions. If these children have a problem with continuing on their honest and selfish ways, they better pick up a paint brush or an instrument or something, or their lives are going to go nuts.

Hold on... just re-read last paragraph... a little preachy... make some time to reflect on preachiness, tonight, 8:15.

Again animals... they don't do drugs, drink too much, get involved with other animals, etc.

Now, I'm not creative in any way whatsoever. Most of my time is spent with numbers and how to keep my heart disease from rising while the stock exchange melts (hint: eat lots of Cheerios. They're great for the heart. The box has a picture of a bowl shaped like a heart on it's cover). Most of my time is spent with equations. In fact after the readings, I developed a new one with a quote from page 91.

"... to be counted as creative requires the social honorific of certification as 'new,' 'valuable,' 'useful,' and appropriate,' conferred by members of society deemed qualified to judge its worth."

+

People judging its worth

-

People thinking it's awful

+

Some people thinking it's not awful

X

2(People thinking it's awful and making fun of the people who think it's not awful)

-

A celebrity endorsing the creative product

+

Death of the creative who made the product

+

All the people who hated the product

/

reading that a celebrity thinks it's cool

=

posthumous fame

Symbolically, the equation is as follows;

Q + P - P:( + P:) X 2P:( - C + D + P:( / C = PHF