An artist lives in direct contact with the world and uses their art to explore the expression of emotion, which changes and evolves as the generations pass.

Marketing professionals, propagandists, and politicians all use what is learned from the process of art to manipulate the public.

The cafe and bookshop owners take what they experience from art to create a comfortable, relaxing environment for their customers to stay, peruse, and… spend money.

A hoarder sits in the middle of their latest nest, the physical mess around them secures their emotional environment by keeping people away.

Back in the 1980’s, a disgruntled, frustrated youth sat on a subway train with a large boom-box blasting aggressive obnoxious music, keeping all of the other passengers on edge and eager to get off the train. Those passengers remained on edge for the rest of the evening, passing the toxic energy onto their friends and loved ones, except for the passengers who went home to a place that was designed to be calming.

The fiction writer goes to great lengths to construct their lives to be as comfortable as possible, often becoming very isolated, so they can construct their complex worlds without emotions from the outside world corrupting the prose, or current events randomly influencing the flow of their logic and disrupting the flow of their story. It is the only way to draw the reader away from their reality.

The philosopher is a writer who tries to build an environment with nothing but words and imagination in order to draw a reader away from the world they live in so that complex ideas can be conveyed in their pure form.

To build a sustainable culture requires that we continuously focus on the feel of the world we desire to be productive in, rather than the idea of how it would appear when finished.