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Art forms have always been created to communicate important messages and to inspire people to act and think. Before humankind learned to read we depended solely on word of mouth or on visual symbols to express meanings and to learn something. This is not a NEW IDEA.
We flatter ourselves if we think that the past (or other people's past and other places are the same as anyone's NOW,
Audiences have always been varied. They were/are different, defined by different by social and geographic perceptions/constraints and whether or not they shared or share similar sets of meanings. With increased communication between groups may come increasingly different levels of literacy and social diversity within and the awareness of this between societies, as well as a possible increase social interaction between societies, Hopefully humans can learn to respect one another's differences
