WHAT CAN POSSIBLY BE MORE IMPORTANT TO ANY SERIOUS  INTELLECTUAL OR ARTISTIC undertaking than that it have a purpose? And, after that question, another follows: What can possibly be more important than that this purpose be one that's worthy, significant, ambitious, and in service to the accomplishing of good for humanity?

THEREFORE, HEREWITH, AND THEREBY: We urge you to read Oliver's adopted manifesto, an exploratory statement composed by Adam Engel that succeeds not only in answering those two introductory questions in the paragraph above this one, but also succeeds in defining them.

Here are three excerpts from the Manifesto, intended to whet your appetite for the greater feast offered by the whole. Read them. And then go on to read the entire Manifesto of The Oliver Arts and Open Press.  

'So we may indeed have "readers"--though nearly everyone I know who reads seriously is, of course, a writer--but we have no "literature."

'In other words, we have an official, corporate/state approved "literature" like those of the Soviets and other dead, repressive societies before us.'

'Today, there is no need to ban literature, for the powers that be have hit on something better: The creation of an alleged "market" comprised of people who will read only a certain kind of book. . .  while all other books go ignored, especially those that might question not merely U.S. society, culture, and politics itself, but the very mediocrity of what Big Media. . . deems "publishable," i.e., adhering to the correct formula and sticking to approved topics.' 

Now, with those passages for a kick-start, go on to read the whole of the Oliver Arts & Open Press Manifesto.