and now... It's The Arts

In this quite unexpected but amusing article, the Economist opines:

Staggering, awe-inspiring deficiency [in the arts] perhaps deserves even greater recognition than the handful of prizes doled out today. It is the vital second front in the battle against creative mediocrity.

They've got a point. I have found that in most of my abortive artistic endeavors, I have never really had the talent necessary to be worse than mediocre.