The Role of the Artist in Times of Crisis with Ben Okri
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Are We Not Facing Our Own Flaws?
I don't think as a culture almost anywhere in the world except amongst maybe the people who are living constantly on the edge of crisis and even then I'm not so sure. The more we unfaced something, the bigger it gets. It doesn't get smaller. If you're not facing it, it means that you add into it every day,. You are increasing its power and its strength. We've made an epic history of not facing things because we've not been facing them for thousands of years. And most of the things that we have to face thatyou say that are difficult, that now are monsters.
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