{"id":1363,"date":"2009-11-04T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T16:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/11\/what_if_the_new_normal_is_real\/"},"modified":"2009-11-04T08:29:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T16:29:05","slug":"what_if_the_new_normal_is_real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/what_if_the_new_normal_is_real.php","title":{"rendered":"What if the ‘new normal’ is really the original normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neill Archer Roan posts a rather interesting thought<\/a> on his weblog about what we’re all calling the ‘new normal’ for our economy, our society, and our work: what if the past 50 years were the exception, not the rule, to human history? What if the conditions we all considered to be ‘normal’ as we built our businesses, our industries, and our common sense were actually  anomolies? He quotes a recent interview with Jim Collins<\/a> in Fortune<\/i>, who says: <\/p>\n

It turns out that 1952 to 2000 was an aberration. We had a combination of tremendous stability brought on by two monolithic superpowers — danger, yes, but stability, combined with unprecedented prosperity. Very rarely in human history — maybe the Egyptian empire or 200 A.D. in Rome — only a few times you can go back and find those.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yet, most of the nonprofit arts industry was born and evolved in that aberration. And what we consider ‘standards of practice’ could be standards for a universe that’s not coming back.<\/p>\n

Which is not to suggest that arts organizations throw in the towel, but rather that it’s a good time to check ALL of our assumptions about what we do, how we do it, and what we define as success. And it also might be a good time to dust off our history books to see how arts and culture worked before 1952. There might be some useful ideas from the OLD normal that could be revived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neill Archer Roan posts a rather interesting thought on his weblog about what we’re all calling the ‘new normal’ for our economy, our society, and our work: what if the past 50 years were the exception, not the rule, to human history? What if the conditions we all considered to be ‘normal’ as we built […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}