Folly

Every once in awhile, I come across a writer whose words are those I wish I’d said, who expresses my own thinking a better than I can. The latest in the line of such writers is Alfred de Grazia, who has published an archive of his work at the Grazian Archive.

A sample:

Of artists and scholars, of the creative class, it is said, “Their work lives on.” But does it? If as much effort were put into carrying the effects of a creative mind into the future as is put into keeping it oxygenated for a few weeks longer, the American cultural heritage would be much the richer. Not that our proposition would be sharply for the one or the other. It is rather that much can be done to invent a low-cost socially beneficial system of managing intellectual estates, which would operate also to resolve the typical anxieties of creators and their intimates.

But my real admiration with de Grazia is for the scope of his thinking, his ability to draw connections between the personal and political, local and global, overt and covert.

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