“Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.” - Oscar Wild

Art, fueled by the imagination, is an anathema to those who wish to press their authority down on others. If the imaginative nature that dwells in every soul that walks the earth were to burn with delight, those who possess the chains of the good slave - a slave who thinks he is free but is not - would shed their chains, allowing them to crumble into a million pieces.

In his most recent report, Jon Rappoport of No More Fake News makes this point. Art takes peoples perceptions of what is and what should be, that is fed to them from the dominated culture and power structures, and places a different reality into the individual's hand.

Here are some highlights I think are worth pointing out from his article, "Art is dangerous to authorities."

Authority wants limited perception.
It wants “things as they are” to rule the day.

Art is dangerous. It makes people move out of standard-response channels.
They don’t see what they’re supposed to see anymore.

Those who run things—and their willing dupes—want reality to look a certain way and be experienced and felt in certain ways. These limited spectra form a shared lowest common denominator.

Art has none of these limitations. It’s created by people who’ve gone beyond the shrunken catalog of emotions, thoughts, and perceptions.

Art, by which I mean imagination, throws caution to the winds. It invents realities that engender new reactions, never before experienced.

The hammer blows and the soft propaganda of the common culture install layers of mind control: “See things, experience things in these prescribed ways.”

Over the years, I’ve encouraged a number of people to become artists. Aside from the work they then invented, I noticed their whole approach to, and perception of, life altered radically.
Their sense of vitality, their courage, their adventurous spirit came to the foreground.

Technocrats would like you to believe that hooking your brain up to some super-computer will fulfill your needs and desires. They seek to prove that all invention, all creation, all art, all imagination is merely a set of calculations within a closed system.

On the other hand, individual creative power launches from a platform of freedom and rises through layer upon layer of greater freedom.
From that perspective, authoritarian power looks like a sick-unto-dying charade.

There are two levels of fake news. The first one, many people know about. This is false and deceptive information broadcast by major media, to keep the public from discovering what really goes on under the surface and behind the veil, where power is used.
The second level, very few people understand. It is owned and operated by what I call the Wizards of Is. They say, “Now this IS and that IS and here is something else that IS…keep looking and thinking about what is, what already exists.”
“Familiarize yourself with everything that already exists. We will give you an endless supply of things and ideas you can peruse and feast on. We will give you what exists. Look at all these things and accept them. Keep doing that.”
The corollary is: There is nothing for you to create. Everything that can be created is being created. You yourself have no power to create.
This is the deeper lie. This is where the battle stops and the individual surrenders.

OR…
The individual can wake up and deploy his imagination.
Without limit.
This is where the new battle begins. This is where the artist sets aside all the standard responses and petty emotions and, instead, INVENTS.

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