Luxury is one of those concepts that we know in principle what it means, but it's tough to pin down in reality. It's not the thing itself, but our attitude to it and our perception of what meaning and provenance it possesses.
The question our schools must answer is not whether children should be creative. They already are. The question is whether we will have the wisdom — and the courage — to stop educating it out of them
Art arrives by a different road entirely, bypassing the locked doors and finding the person still waiting inside. It is a small, quietly devastating observation, and it captures something that neuroscience has been methodically proving ever since: that engaging with art — making it, experiencing it, losing yourself in it — does something profound and measurable to the human brain.
Economists, bless them, have spent centuries trying to explain why some nations prosper and others flounder, filling blackboards with supply curves, liquidity traps, and enough Greek letters to staff an Athens phone book. And yet the answer may have been hiding in plain sight all along
Brilliant Conditions V3
Why Culture Is the Greenhouse (or the Weedkiller) of Human Creativity
On imagination, risk, and the surprisingly negotiable economics of permission
