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problems and situations that have not yet emerged in the
larger matrix of society, giving the artistically perceptive
businessman a decade of leeway in his planning.
In the electric age, the closing of the gaps between art
and business, or between campus and community, are part of
the overall implosion that closes the ranks of specialists at all
levels. Flaubert, the French novelist of the nineteenth century,
felt that the Franco-Prussian War could have been avoided if
people had heeded his Sentimental Education . A similar feeling
has since come to be widely held by artists. They know that
they are engaged in making live models of situations that have
not yet matured in the society at large. In their artistic play,
they discovered what is actually happening, and thus they
appear to be “ahead of their time.” Non-artists always look at
the present through the spectacles of the preceding age.