The War On Terror is like scratching a rash. Or beating a wasp nest with a golf club (as evidenced by the results of the decade-plus that its been waged). I just read that the extreme right wing in Europe expects to gain power from the French attacks, not surprisingly. If we (the western world) continue to go further and further to the extreme right it means less freedom; more war, more laws, more enforcers, more racism, more ecological catastrophes, more surveillance of everyone, more secret prisons, more torture...more terrorist attacks. The extreme right throughout time and around the planet has almost, by definition, been an enemy of free speech and certainly in France has long been anti-semitic. They arent going to save us from other anti-semitic enemies of free speech! We-have-to step up and articulate alternative visions, we all share this world and must share this world, theres no other way. We cant survive more and more war. For the survival of our species, and all the rest as well, its necessary we evolve beyond constant cyclical and increasingly violent confrontations and bulking police state. Its ratcheting up, day after day and now the heat might really take a leap. If we go much further to the right there will be no turning back. Then well really be stuck between tyrants and terrorists. But dont let yourself get overcome with what seems like an ever darkening inevitability. Artists, focus your work on solutions. Reach across your borders. Maybe a child has the best idea. Think out of the box, be creative and courageous, have a vision? Make a vision and articulate it! Its a pivotal moment in time. Involve yourself.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:37:26 +0000
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