Some people work well with generalities, others with specifics. The highly specific well-rounded subjective world crafted by the insightful artisan endures the destructive assaults of the objective generalist, assaults which still manage to encourage creativity which in turn nurtures and deconstructs their author. The canonized object of artistic merit endures because its particular character is so highly refined that it becomes a subject of critical veneration, the particular then slowly becoming general. The generalized archaic maxim exists to provide a source of cultural comfort, the Artist castigating its merit, which in turn, eventually, revitalizes it. The positive archaic maxim functions as a wise cautionary tale, the negative, a revolting stereotype, the middle ground, culture.