Status Updates From The New Jerusalem

But no building, however tall, no technology, however marvelous, nor even any politics, however democratic, can make a people so free.

Now it suddenly became clear to me that Patti Smith is convinced to the depths of her soul that art and religious awareness are inextricably bound up together. This religious consciousness is not only the secret and essence of all art, but the moral source of the eternal protest against all those tyrannical powers that dehumanize the human world, make the soul soulless and destroy nature.