Summer of 2020: talkPOPc sets up next to the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and speechwriter Marjorie Sweeney talks about social role of art.  She agrees to the obvious fact that there is great individualism in art, but her point is that there are also great social and political functions. Wanting to create is a natural human urge & all children show this, but adults are far more inhibited - we would look askance at some adult dancing down the street, whereas if a child does it we say "how cute". But public dancing and public singing is incredibly important for a society and one of the real problems with contemporary American culture is the highly individualistic mode, and so we don't understand our physicality with relation to one another. She points out there's  a lot of money in individualizing everything - your own streaming service, etc. Instead, public dancing would be an antidote: "a pro-dance platform could take us somewhere".  

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