Get In Line Dept.

One of my favorite quotes from John Cage is from hisLecture on Something, in which he mentions in passing about why rankings — "First, Second, No Good" — of creative works amounts to being the hobgoblins of small minds.

Most of the talk about what comes first, or what is best, is little more than a way for people to find something to put on a pedestal. Perhaps they want something to look up to; perhaps they want to have other people look up to it; perhaps they want to take credit for recognizi...