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What is now lost is the secret. What was found though was a way into this prose. I have started. We are underway on this uncharted journey through the scattered mind and unreasoned logic of a writer and artist who is never sure of anything. I don’t lie to you. I don’t try to convince you that I am savvy and all knowing. What you get, what you will find in this text, is honesty. What you lose is the strength to believe in my variable convictions.
 

 

Modern culture is lost. Serious art is about jokes and funny art is taken seriously. Writers no longer write, they simply form sentences. Books are just that, books. Pages of ironic prose wrapped in a cover that begs to be judged. We read about people like us trying to be people like us. Mochaculture. Manufactured individualism. Craft has been replaced by convenience. Audiences are not broadly educated or demanding and so the artist does not need to be challenging. We like spectacle and stunt. We want it Lite.

We don’t mind that the politicians are squeezing every last freedom out of modern living because we have all that we want. Let them put surveillance cameras in every nook and cranny because I will feel safer eating my fucking panini at the chrome altar in the Church of Mediocrity on the pavement of Anycity. I work hard. I play hard. I want my panini.

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

Bloated funding bodies throwing money at second rate artists with third rate ideas. I feel pain, give me money. I want to engage with a wider community. I am an artist. I suffer; last week I had to buy own brand fusilli. No one understands me. I don’t even understand me which is why I need more public money to further explore my limited intellectual capacity to the full.

 

 
 
 

 

Our shared culture is purely based on our shared purchases. Coming soon: Harry Potter and the Repetitive Plot. Run down to that bookshop at midnight to be one of the first of millions to buy that drivel. Six hundred pages of more wizard antics. And then the film. And the merchandise. George Lucas has a lot to answer for. The constant reinvention of the wheel is a sign of progress? When you look around all you seem to find are unhappy people chasing a lifestyle that they don’t question in order to convince themselves that they have made it. When they get to this point, they are still unfulfilled. There is more to life than the entire series of ‘Six Feet Under’ on DVD, even if it is the limited edition coffin shaped boxed set.

bob.milner@yahoo.co.uk

www.milktwosugars.org