I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.