Decline and Liberation

In the not so distant future actors, painters, writers, sculptors, musicians and directors will experience the world first before creating a world of their own!

It makes no sense to get personal. Each of us is a piece on a chessboard called history. 

If you want to create something new or expand an unmined field

expect to spend most of your life known to only a few.

There's a kind of woman and man the government and the corporations want. We all know what he or she is. As Barbara Tuchman alluded to "when the gap between the real and the ideal becomes too great, the human mind snaps."

Sometimes when I'm watching T.V. I feel the American people are being portrayed as a lost tribe of nit wits. Without sports American men would go insane; they would have nothing to talk about.

Look at the depth of the individual the Western World generated 

from 1880 to 1980, those who were propelled into the main arenas and compare them to the people who now command the stage.

At aga noe en shadow

Crystalized in the present

the past is never far from here

but to live in the past is a kind

of insanity.

We must be like the mad parents

of the children who dove

off cliffs rather than starve to death:

Parents who were amazed

at their children's exuberance.

Except for the young, most of us

are sustained by the past.

Sculpted by time

to be a living embodiment

of the past.

This ranting about courage,

Don't give up the faith; 

Persistence through struggle 

masks this sorry feeling of incompentence

and destructiveness.

If politics is the art of patronage

and the skillful dissemination of power, 

then we are screwed. 

As in the arts, there are brief moments in politics when sanity and light prevail 

but those golden years are quickly replaced by contracting reactions. 

The beauty of an effective political structure 

is its astonishing ability to absorb and neutralize what it is tormented by.