extension, right and wrong. Fundamentally, the issue is survival, which is why the stakes are high.* As suggested above, the role of the artist and/or visionary (supplemented by the wisdom of philosophers, the tools of science, the lessons of the historian, etc.) is mediator; to serve as faithful transmitter (as in representation) of the cosmic situation, encompassing reality (“on-the-ground” in which we find ourselves now), in order to provide the qualified interpreters with the data they require to make sound judgments, to create new technologies for changing or different circumstances to recall past experience of value in extant conditions and so on.

This model for artistic and/or visionary utility can be describe diagrammatically: