Coltrane Vs. Vonnegut II Dept.

As promised, a follow-up on my previous post. The premise: Artgives people permission to be that much more wholly themselves, for good or ill. Preferably for good.

A lot of people misinterpret this as being about "disinhibition" — that "being yourself" is a matter of giving free reign to selfish impulses of one kind or another. They couldn't be more wrong. Being your "true" self is not, strictly speaking, a matter of acting out things that you normally repress.

This one is kind of tricky, so...