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I couldn’t agree more, but that doesn’t in any waylend credence to the idea that the walls shouldcome down. Critics and commentators like myselfexist so that outsider creators can become known,and find their way inside. We need to acknowledgethe ways we are failing to do that. We don’t needto burn the castle down.The concept album The Wall (1979) by classic rockgroup Pink Floyd contains songs that tell a story.In it, we follow the life of a musician who is pushedfurther into isolation and disconnect by the ills ofthe world. Mentally, the protagonist builds “thewall” to keep everyone out and to keep himselfsafe. Pink Floyd was trying to comment on howmodern society alienates and isolates us all; eachmoment of the protagonist’s life is another brickin the wall, and in the finale of the album, the wallis torn down and he is once again free to reconnectwith the world.Of course, this was written beforethe creation of the internet,and the danger for artists todayis not isolation but invasion.The fact is, radical inclusivity was a great idea intheory and in history, but it fails to pass musterin practice today. Ten years ago, the narrative wasthat “anybody can make a game,” not unlike howthe idea driving communism was that “everyone’seffort is equally valuable.” We know how well thelatter worked out, and now it’s time to put the formeron the same shelf.Tower image rendered and shared by Monteirinhoon PlanetMinecraft.com