Thanks for your comments. Posting the video was indeed meant to illustrate a principle, that even the coldest corporate strategist would not dream of taking paintbrushes from the hands of a five-year old, or to require a university degree or license before they can afford to purchase oil paints. Every human being would agree that a child should not be prevented from developing, expressing themselves with paint or words or, as I and any decent human being would say, with media of any kind. And the tools, though new, are like magic, cutting through the toil of work that, not long ago, was required to achieve what can now be done with a click (and I mean simply basic fundamental operations like copy and paste. Not long ago, oil paint pigments had to be found in the mountains, ground by hand and mixed with carefully pressed and slightly oxidized oils.)
But the paying jobs in any industry, and the competition that keeps the goods coming to market, will always be a demanding environment of work, dedication, and discipline. Often there's a disconnect between popular conception, and even paying market, and the ground force that actually gets things done. How many students have paid large sums to chef schools under the dream of achieving some sort of high-class status, only to discover that the actual job is more about simply getting all the vegetables cut in time and keeping them from changing color before they get to the customer's table. A true Italian kitchen is a grueling environment. But they won't tell you that at chef school, while you're busy paying your inheritance out for tuition.
Now there's a new industry being built around a generation of aspiring film-makers. They can't be stopped, so how can they be harnessed? If they can't be harnessed, how can they be stopped? I'm a tea-totaller, apart from a little wine from my own vineyard, but I've seen enough to know that creativity is given more power than discipline, if the two should meet head-to-head. I'm also a veteran of foreign wars and I recognize that the best course is mutually respected development and cooperation between the creative and the disciplined forms of being. In truth and in trust.
