Are Artists the Antennae of Mankind?

Ezra Pound has a great quote. He says that artists are the antennae of mankind. Right. I think of them as pseudopods, you know, like, right. Exactly. And some of those pseudopods get bit off. But now and then everyone moves in that direction. That gets us back. They're faster. They have more. They have an exponentially more quickly. It's akin to Jung's idea that dreams and fantasy are the pseudopods of the mind. It's the same kind of idea and very, might be the same idea in fact. You could argue that it more or less coincides with the Industrial Revolution. It starts to, at that