Art does not require pain; joy is worth celebrating
I'm not much for the whole posting quotes thing, but this quote from Ursula le Guin's award-winning 'Those Who Walked Away From Omelas,' which can be read in full here, strikes me as worth sharing: "The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain ... But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold…