The American Artform

Art is a human instinct. We seek to beautify our existence, our lives, our worlds. We strive to perform actions, produce goods, in such a manner by which they simply become inspiring by the very level of craft and refinement that they reach. For as long as the human spirit has animated our outlook and motivated our choices we have striven for beauty, inspiration, idealism, the purview of artistry. I realized not long ago that the arts we revere have certain origins and are not distributed equally across cultures. If I were to ask you which art is most distinctive in American culture, you might give me a few answers. Jazz, musical theater, cinema, the elusive great American novel. But I think there is an American artform far more pervasive and influential in our modern world than any of those, with all other cultures and nations looking to American for its artistic models and trendsetters, and it’s perhaps something you do not even think of as a form of art. The art is entrepreneurship, and while America is often imitated, its spirit is never duplicated. From the very beginning this was American’s art, and remains so to this day. We don’t stand out in the others nearly to this extent, but entrepreneurship is what America was made for, and that is where we shine. In my opinion, we have elevated entrepreneurship to an art in a way no other nation has, and in a way we have not attained with any other medium. We’ll be exploring all of that and more today on Thinking Hard, or Hardly Thinking. Learn more about Aaron at www.aaronjmarx.com Read/listen to the Entrepreneurial Manifesto: https://www.aaronjmarx.com/manifesto