Neediness and information

Lately I have been visiting art galeries. Many of them are of free entrance. This seems to happen more and more often. You don't even have to pay for art anymore, the artist is happy for anyone that even stops and takes a minute to listen. But has art really disappeared out of our daily life? In a traditional sense it seems to be true. However there are more and more people that can name more brands than artists. Kitkat is red and snickers is black with white letters on in. Everyone remembers the latest commercial on coca-cola and what brand of clothes sponsored their favourite musician in their last music video. Some of the artists became designers and design commercials and logos, some of the writers became copywriter and write catchy lines to make you feel like you need to buy this or that to be the self you desire. Some of the musicians too create jingles for these commercials. And art galeries of not so famous artists became free. What does it teach me to stare at a black dot on a white paper or some random colours mixed together, that's a waste of time, people mind think and as we all know time is money! Selfhelp books however sell very well. Nobody can doubt that they are useful when one looks at their titles: four hour work week, become happy now, relax accordig to science and so on. Most of them promise you to learn through science how to live a succesful, happy and rich life how the author of the book himself claims to have. And art seems to point its figers on the sad and painful part of life to balance this. Even some of the people that are into art turn to it so that it can make them feel special and enhance their identity of being someone different and a natural artist. I sit in the cafe as always and grip the book in my hands. I feel I must read it, I feel I need it. Without this book I will never reach the information that will teach me how to finally end my suffering. But it never happens and the books often just remind me of things I already knew. They just say it in a little different way and that's the whole fun of it. I try to close my eyes and tell myself to relax. There are valuable information in this book but I don't need to know them to be enough. I try to remind myself of it. I try to understand this with my heart.