Everything is Permitted

For the cost of forcing one's will on another is a kind of neglect - the beginning of CRIME.

Outside of the 10 Commandments

Nothing is illegal in adult behaviour.

Once you remove the State's function

as Arbiter of morals, once the State is excised, youve swept the stage clean.

The State cannot pick and choose

between what sexual behaviours

are acceptable, what drugs are acceptable, which religions. One could say let the market decide. It's against the laws of Democracy to allow the State to tell the people what to eat, wear, or think. In fact the people themselves cannot decide for the people as a whole. Each individual has the sovereign right to decide for themselves. Would this return to individualism stem the growing rise of violence in America?

The Western World has been literary for at least 4500 years. Replacing such an ancient tradition and overnight, is bound to take its toll. Maybe we are shedding our literary roots, as Marshall McCluhan sugggested, for a grander, deeper vision. The image of "noumena" - the thing in itself. Painting and sculpture are the finest examples of the image. Their meanings can be historic, iconographic, representational or projective (as in abstract painting), but the word does more than resonate across the star-studded mountains of time. Through language we can see, feel and become engaged with every type of mind from cultures long dead. No other human expression can give us this glimpse into the complexity of human life. Up until now our history has been kept alive by the word.

Does the pervasiveness 

of the image erode the power

of the word or has the word

run its course? Is the 

power of the image

an evolutionary force?

One has the urge to create paintings,

music, or write stories, poems, movies, etc..

One studies the various crafts and disciplines and yet without the time to experience life, as one knows it, and then to have the time to analyze and explore feelings, memories, and ongoing observations of that life, one - or you -probably won't come up with anything worth a damn.