Art turns fear into power

Did a terrific show yesterday, on how art turns fear into power.  We focused on a sliver of that: Afrofuturism, specifically Octavia Butler’s fears, how they drove her to excellence, and how Ryan Coogler used fear to go from a boutique film to a 200 million dollar blockbuster.   In the middle, how Jordan Peele used his own fears to propel GET OUT to a quarter billion dollars at the box office.

 

Now, take a step back and look at this process.  It implies that fear can be used as energy, that...