Yes, I have been thinking about these a lot lately. They came up when thinking about the credit crunch and everything around it. We people love to follow others, like sheep, also in the abyss.
I, quite often, find myself outside the group by surprise and makes me wondering why. When I try to convince others of different ideas, you have to fight against group culture, habits and thoughts. Doing this takes a lot of energy.
I have noticed in particular that groups can have their own ways of make things sensible and simple ways of defending their truth, resulting in ‘begging the question’, which is a circle of arguments that will defend each other’s existence. This can become really frustrating, just like being normal and sane in a mental institution. They keep saying you’re insane, because you are behaving different from what they expect. They expect insane behavior; therefore your sane behavior becomes insane.
You will notice similar things when you are new to a group. You have more distance between you and their ideas, which make you have a clearer view. But to work with that group you have to adapt to their culture and try to understand them.
The question for myself, as being relatively new to the art world, where does ‘getting to know’ stop and art innovation begins?
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