Cities used to grow artists the way certain dirt grows mushrooms. You didn’t need much. A cheap room, a cheap drink, and a few other cranks who cared about the same peculiar things you did. You could fail at this for years and still feel like a citizen of something enormous, which is a neat…
Tag: Destruction
Norming Mental Illness
There is something profoundly disconcerting about the state of our current culture, and it is this: we seem to have collectively decided that the mentally ill should dictate our cultural norms and political platforms. This is not an idle observation or a mere rhetorical flourish; it is a documented reality, one that ought to give…