Huh? Wow, I am speechless... Are you sure you wanted to type that?
Imagine an artist with a muse. She occupies his mind, drives his creativity, unreachability of her perfection inspires hard work and progress, creating works of wonder. Now that artist finally gets intimate with his muse, faces the reality and brutal disappoinment with the illusion that was driving him, making him incapacitated for a while. So the carrot in the form of an ideal woman was responsible for some outstanding work that wouldn't happen otherwise; the moment the goal he hoped for was reached, the illusion was gone, and the well of artistic inspiration in the form of this muse was dry. Yet, something remained from this - a work of art, something the whole society benefits from.
Try to apply this throughout the society to understand how great works were completed; this was one of a few main motivations (of course there were other ones for different works).
Yes, I wanted to type that. Women are not muses nor perfect, they are people and artist will be shocked that they fart, get angry, sweat and disagree with him. The artist made mistake when he lost contact with reality and replaced real human by unreal vision. This story has nothing with how women are like and everything with young man being lied to.
I care less about his painting then about women who will become target of his wrath when he gets confronted with reality. And even he would be happier if he never went the illusion way.
Plenty of productive men are not like the artist in that story.
Huh? Wow, I am speechless... Are you sure you wanted to type that?
Imagine an artist with a muse. She occupies his mind, drives his creativity, unreachability of her perfection inspires hard work and progress, creating works of wonder. Now that artist finally gets intimate with his muse, faces the reality and brutal disappoinment with the illusion that was driving him, making him incapacitated for a while. So the carrot in the form of an ideal woman was responsible for some outstanding work that wouldn't happen otherwise; the moment the goal he hoped for was reached, the illusion was gone, and the well of artistic inspiration in the form of this muse was dry. Yet, something remained from this - a work of art, something the whole society benefits from.
Try to apply this throughout the society to understand how great works were completed; this was one of a few main motivations (of course there were other ones for different works).