By David Mason
The Importance of Arts, Culture & The Creative Proces
Having seen enough of the incompetence of politics and the rapacity of corporations, not to mention the numbing discourse that clogs the Internet and most of the media, I return to the arts, particularly music and poetry, to find the place in which our humanity in all its dimensions can be fully seen. As Miłosz reminded us, “One clear stanza can take more weight / Than a whole wagon of elaborate prose.” I am still trying to write that one clear stanza.
Tell us something about the natural world that you love and don’t wish to lose. What are your thoughts on the kind of world we are leaving for the next generation?
The health of the sea, where I swim nearly every day in Tasmania, has been seriously compromised by mismanagement and terrible corporations like the operators of open-cage salmon farms. I see the evidence when I swim the kelp forests and find the fish depleted, the sea birds fewer, the seals vanishing. This is not the world I want to leave my granddaughter.
