Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness - and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.- Arundhati Roy
I would add though that it is important to do the same even if you are the only one who sees that it is needed. It is hard to not be supported by the world around you, but art, literature, stories, are life itself, as much as raising children and loving other people and eating food. The important thing is to keep on keeping on, because in your heart of hearts it is life we are talking about.
I would add though that it is important to do the same even if you are the only one who sees that it is needed. It is hard to not be supported by the world around you, but art, literature, stories, are life itself, as much as raising children and loving other people and eating food. The important thing is to keep on keeping on, because in your heart of hearts it is life we are talking about.
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Very True. Einstein said that 'Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.' In the final instance, it is art that matters and counts. However much the acknowledged totalitarian legislators may try to pretend it doesn't matter beyond entertainment. I am reminded of Leigh Hunt's supreme essay on 'What is Poetry? and of Keats' remark to the effect that he felt he could not exist without poetry. For me poetry has been my life. More than anything else it is art that shapes the way we think even if other factors such as money twist the way most people choose to lead their lives. Money does not have the power to control people's minds:
“Fire and poetry—two great powers
that mek this so-called god’s world OURS
The fire of poetry still burns in human hearts and minds and no power in the world can change that. It is what makes us human, more aware of our world and thus, more difficult to deceive.
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