I very much sympathize with Grayson Perry’s quote from The Observer in one of the banners in your last issue (No. 84, March-April 2009). As he says, the recession might flush out the system: “Maybe artists will be reminded that integrity is about doing what you want rather than what makes money.” I remember thinking exactly the same way in the early Nineties, when many of my fellow artists in London and elsewhere appeared to think the same way, as well. Alas, that recession lasted only a few years, and artists returned to doing what makes money once again. Perhaps the only lasting remedy in this regard would be a long, deep depression. Come to think of it, everlasting economic decline would actually be the best. It would flush out the system all right.