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To: Dayuhan who wrote (21004)	8/8/2001 10:40:41 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

Possibly I should be clearer. I am not saying that these constraints are absolute or universal, or that nothing manages to slip through. I'm saying that these constraints do determine the general trends and directions within the industry. People push the envelope all the time. The vast majority of the envelope-pushing that actually reaches the market takes directions that have been demonstrated to be commercially viable. Must be something wrong here. You and I seem to be agreeing. If Picasso hadn't been selling paintings, do you really think he would have kept pushing the envelope? Or go further back. Aristophenes wrote plays that pushed the envelope for competitions in which he expected to make a lot of money. Shakespeare was a hack, writing what he thought audiences would pay to come see. (How tempting it is to say what better taste those audiences had than today's have.) If he hadn't kept producing successes most of the time, his patrons' money would soon dry up. It's the dream of virtually every artist I know to get paid well for doing exactly what they want to do. Come to think of it, that's MY dream too!