A work of genius creativity often requires a favorable zeitgeist and circumstance and a culture-civilization sufficiently stable and functional to provide a ground to the mind, without which it lacks the security and confidence to reach forth boldly and to see well what it has accomplished. This we have now come to lack; we flounder instead in a welter of confusion with nowhere to stand and stay. We are but as if lost in space, dodging whizzing satellites and silent deadly space debris, helpless to create art and meaning.
But there is also the genius creativity that comes from the mind in extremis hitting bottom, reduced to the utter limit of endurance, when the brain-mind goes into overdrive, reengineering the psyche in a last desperate wrench at salvation. Can we hope for this? that in just one mind somewhere on the planet this would arrive. But would it then be heard around the world and got?
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