But there is a point I wanted to make about the young artist and liberalization. When a new trend comes in the arts it is often pioneered by one dissident or rebel. Then similar rebelliousness or liberalizations come in other places. A movement starts like the flower children of the '60s, which became a worldwide phenomenon. But when many people become flower children then, of course, the rebels have to look for some other way of being different.
Young people force each other to conform to certain norms.
Very often the artist starts a new movement as a protest, but then the movement becomes the norm over time, and then someone else feels they have to protest against the new norm, and another trend starts. What is interesting too is that so often the rebel becomes a leader and then becomes very conservative in order to preserve or safeguard leadership. These people don't say that now. Because we have the trappings of western culture now. But in the past they did not see their own cultures as being true culture.