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Opinion on Art
The Path to a Craft
On the Authentic Pathway to Creativity
Anyone who has had an authentic pathway to a craft can attest to the lack of freedom involved in its genesis; for it to initially spring forth into consciousness is never a matter of freedom but of our thrown facticity.
Craft: Others versus “Self”
Just as one may inherit a disposition to cheerfulness or a lack thereof, so too — and with just as much arbitrariness — may one inherit the disposition to excel in a particular craft.
This, in essence, will always be what one — unencumbered by others and ideally (so, not always feasibly) supported by them — most naturally gravitates toward.
We know what this shall/ought to be for ourselves inasmuch as our feelings of being-empowered increase as we enact the understanding (intellectione) of our craft (techne).
The more one enacts such understanding, the less the other-encumbered one will be, as the more one’s creations will have an effect of encumbering others, thus bolstering them in relation to one in their role as “supportive-other.”
The way that others infiltrate one’s creative-rhythmic-momentum is by co-opting the supportive role — another’s presence must be immediately known as a…
