Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it’s the small business. Every artistic or moral aspiration — music, food, good works, what have you — is expressed in those terms.

It’s so true - every time I talk to a friend or acquittance and creativity, or passion, or some kind of desire to turn the world into a better place enters the conversation there’s a palpable shift in the conversation - “how can we monetize this” is always, always uttered.