come to be generally acknowledged that, in the words of 
Wyndham Lewis, “The artist is always engaged in writing a 
detailed history of the future because he is the only person 
aware of the nature of the present.” Knowledge of this simple 
fact is now needed for human survival. The ability of the artist 
to sidestep the bully blow of new technology of any age, and to 
parry such violence with full awareness, is age-old. Equally age-
old is the inability of the percussed victims, who cannot 
sidestep the new violence, to recognize their need of the artist. 
To reward and to make celebrities of artists can, also, be a way 
of ignoring their prophetic work, and preventing its timely use 
for survival. The artist is the man in any field, scientific or 
humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of 
new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral 
awareness.