Artisans, Artists, and Buskers

We're at an interesting time. For a long time, most of my my lifetime, we've been able to get away with getting by at the expense of others. I think it's ending.

There are three types of person I notice. Artists, Artisans and Buskers..

Artists are the ones with a real sense of who they are, or perhaps more accurately who they are not. They have a view, and often it was clear before they ever left school. They had things they wanted to create. They were part of Steve Jobs' "crazies"

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In the late 60's and early 70's they were the ones who pushed the boundaries of acceptability in music, art , and society. The Establishment sidelined them. It gave us those we still see as iconic. They created chasms from where we were to where we might go. They stretched things to breaking point at the time, from the Rolling Stones to Andy Warhol to Ghandi. You were either with them or against them. Little middle ground. In the words of Nicholas Klein (but often attributed to Ghan…