Art

Art is in the air, the water, the DNA of a culture. It infects some, who catch the fever and get the chills. Some of these eventually get well and go on to productive lives as lawyers, doctors, accountants or other upstanding individuals.

But others never become healthy. Art for them remains a lifelong, chronic disease. It affects their behavior and thinking. They have visions. They presage the future. They twist cultural norms and sometimes have to be locked up. There is no cure.

As years go by, if they are lucky, in perspective they're seen to actually have found a cure to the cultural virus that infected them. They, in effect, were the cure.