creating at the margins...

jonnybaker posted some ideas about the value of creating and thinking at the margins last week which i missed, but they seem quite tied to some of the ideas i'm wrestling with publicly on this blog recently...and a whole set of questions that have been haunting my thoughts all year.

Being positioned at the margins, it seems to me, is the only place to exert a prophetic voice, but the tradeoffs are significant...

so much of the work for artists and thinkers who decide to work at the margins is accomplished in such obscurity that the process can be debilitating.

It's so interesting to be alive at a time when MASS culture so defines local cultures that its difficult for us to even measure small stories / accomplishments / thoughts as successes. As if SMALL precludes the use of the word SUCCESS...