Art and democracy

I spent some time this evening at Border's brushing up on PHP, SQL and other assorted web goodies. Once I finished, I made a bee-line to the poetry section and (randomly) picked up a wonderful collection of essays by Adrienne Rich called Arts of the Possible.

"Art is our human birthright, our most powerful means of access to our own and another's experience and imaginative life. In continually rediscovering and recovering the humanity of human beings, art is crucial to the democratic vision. A government tending further and further away from the search for democracy will see less and less "use" in encouraging artists, will see art as obscenity or hoax."

p.103

I am certainly in the process of recovering my humanity... I hope everyone is as lucky as I am.

Cheers all,
Megan