What the Hell is That? (Part 2)
This is not a rant about what’s wrong with kids, today. Kids are amazing. They are sponges of experience and knowledge who will inherit whatever we adults can do for the human condition. It’s never going to be the other way around, at least not as long as we are inextricably bound to the forward progression of time. But, we grown monsters could certainly do better. I’m increasingly distressed by the number of adults I encounter, who’ve been blinkered against the distraction of most anything that doesn’t serve a certain economic value, that is, beyond the illusion of the utilitarian. I can’t even count the number of times my own works have elicited a judgment of “Useless,” or “I just wasted three minutes of my life watching this.” Should I be mystified that a viewer could sit through an entire three minutes of my video, and then ask, “What does it do?” Jokesters not withstanding, it makes me wonder what, if any, exposure to anything beyond a rote-programmed stumble through existe