Zak, who decides what's positive or negative? Esp in art? You may create an image..say it's positive.. pple may read it another way..and say it's negative. You may watch tv..have all the good news being shown on tv..you may think it's gonna affect pple..come up with logical reasoning.. 'ah.. they see good, they will do good, therefore..the world will turn into a good place.' Hobbes, Locke, Rouseeau all agreed that man by nature is a reckelss being, for.. yes..like you say.. ghosts are not personal..but a social fact. You were born..without any limitations to anything in this world or life. Your limitations were brought upon you by society..who told you..don't do this, don't do that. If we were born free..and shown only good on tv.. or that all our gov't were good, all art form shown were good, arn't we creating a one sided human being? One who cannot distiguish between good or bad? Art..in it's purest state..is politics..yes..for politics controls a man's thinking..a man's way of life..a man's natural development. Art becomes an expression of his call for what he was when he was born.. his natural state. look at your art..I don't mean the spaceships..or anything..I mean..'your purpose' behind creating images..not what you show in it. Damn.. a black dot cld mean a zillion things to pple. Go beyond that..to the overall reason behind you getting creative. It's never for the good of all. It's always.. 'being me'. And don't be afraid to admit it..most famous artists knew the truth. "Bush observing is now an art form, very closely related to politics" says Moon. Moon..LOL!