creation part deux

By banana as a product I mean something like the phenomena of the modern/contemporary writer. Every, well most, writers that I've met have been obsessed with the idea of their writing as a "product" more than anything else. It's a little off-putting but you really can't escape it unless you go and live in a cave and scrawl poetry on leaves before eating them.

While most writing worth anything has historically been far from a "product" most worthy writers led lives of obscurity and poverty. Many works of literature don't even have a clear writer (Homer, Shakespeare, Arabian Nights, etc.)....

We have been led to believe in the banana as a product rather than a banana, something that grows in the jungle quite naturally and can give life.

If we commodify entertainment in the same way, literature, art, philosophy, even science, then it all seems limited somehow. The way universities spend their time getting grants, being pc, and cowing themselves to corporate interests at the expense of important subjects.

In the hospital it's all about billing and insurance and very little about healing.