I think we should be careful of all manifestos, no matter how good, that aren't signed in some way.
Jim Devine -------------- I agree. All along there has been a cutsy pose about the Occupy movement officialdom from back East. This started when there was a call for clear demands and none were forth coming. And while the manifesto covered all the bases, it was repetitous with no sense of poetry and humanity. It was cold. So I go along with it, but with no real heart. While it sounds like mystification, probably because it is, the arts have a role in revolutions, which is to give them a sense of heart and inner purpose. Trotsky was a powerful writer. Marx too, with his sarcasm and ridicule as was Zola with his sentiment and scorn, well and Rousseau sometimes dark, sometimes light. What seems to go un-noticed was the black rhetorical style in the past that gave poetry to purpose and gave simple demands a grand sense of magesty. Politics is an art where we can absolutely decimate the nasty little witchs of right and the establishment. The utter pettiness of the US government and its Wall Street paymasters is what is so appalling about them. Well art with best journalism are the methods to their destruction. There are many ways to tell true to power and poetry is one of them. The need is not just the rationalists but also the productions of the sensibility. CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
