Homer's outside/inside artist

I didn't really know what to say about this week's reading. I agree with everything that the author said, which makes for a very uninteresting post. I have thought more (maybe from that episode) about what it means to be an "inside" artist and the terrible consequences of specialization within our field. Since we are "culture-makers," I think it's tragic that we have developed our field to the same specialization as physicists and other science areas where only those who dedicate their lives to the study of that field can appreciate the intricacies of that field.