Going Down

Today I'm pondering the wideheld distain of the artistic life, the absence of depth of thought and the demand for conformity in our culture. And the avoidance of "going down".

“... in the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters down, if you drop with them farther over the world’s rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the sub-strata, the ocean or matrix or ether which bouts the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.” -Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk

And I'm also thinking about this: "Writers make good bloggers, but does blogging affect good writing?" an article found through Hardcore Zen