![]() ![]() ![]() Two stalwarts in their profession, who enjoyed a cult following, until karma caught up with them. The most recent examples of losing their legacy courtesy sexual misconduct are Louis CK and Kevin Spacey. Thus, artists increasingly end up destroying their own work of labour, when they fail to keep their behaviour in check. In this era of the Internet, social media and increased awareness about sexual misconduct, even artists have to live under the microscope, that is the public eye. People no longer fall for the risqué behaviour which many artists display in the name of an enigma. Gone are the days when being misogynist, cantankerous or chiding off groping as a joke would work. We live in times when it is almost impossible to separate art from the artist. It is not so easy to separate art from the artist And that your legacy will, in the end, pay the cost of your misconduct. His tarnished legacy is a proof that no matter how talented you are, your art is always shadowed by your personal conduct. Despite being hailed as one of the best Sci-Fi writers of his generation, Ellison lost his credibility due to his poor personal conduct and rightly so. ![]()
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