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Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 293 β βThe Power of Art and the TAZβ
Description: Guest speaker: Peter Lamborn Wilson
PROGRAM NOTES:
[NOTE: The following quotations are by Peter Lamborn Wilson.]
βWhy are artists still meddling, or mediating, between people and their desires?β
βAll livelihoods are arts, from midwifery to war, nothing is mere labor.β [In reference to gift economies.]
βThe artist sacrifices talent for money. The audience sacrifices money for talent.β
βOne can no longer distinguish between cops and cop-culture, the media-induced hallucination of a society designed by its lawyers and police.β
βTen minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the...