It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

