Humane Arts: Cultural Milieu

start this thanks for coming out on our rainy evening here in spring evening tonight's subject is cultural milieu this is uh I'm not a very good phrase but how many I'll come up with a better word or phrase to get the idea across but so far what we've been covering this is the behaviors of the individual that we can leisure we've talked about letter-writing walking salons and cafes the art of conversation these are all behaviors of individuals now to get the kinds of flores's that I have for exemplary moments hope everybody got a copy of this is not the work of an individual this is what happens when a group of individuals who share the humane instinct or whatever you want to call it come together and that's why I'm trying to articulate the idea of the cultural milieu and what is required what seems to be present during these particular periods if you have the individuals and then you have the right milieu you're talking about the individual now let's talk about the militant first however let's look at the notion of creative and this is one that is tough to pin down but one thing that's clear is the desire to need to create is seems fundamental to human beings there is no time in the archaeological record when we find signs of human existence that we do not find artwork none whatsoever as soon as we do anything we start doing art of various kinds sculpture lots of evidence that music is is is right there operative at the same time and so the desire to create the need for self-expression is as far as we can tell that probably a biological drive in human as much as anything else it's like food water sex reproduction self-expression creative expression seems innate which then requires some explaining to where it goes right if one suggests that it is innate then any sort of lack of its presence needs explanation what we generally do is say well it's something that you learn from the outside I think this is pretty clearly wrong in any of both the archaeological in sociological record but we'll talk about that but this notion that the creative is almost certainly innate in human beings because like I said we never find evidence of a time when it's not present ...