so after pondering this whole chris gilbert situation... i am starting to wonder. maybe this storm the white house idea is just another version of the same old big hands brute force form of a revolution that ultimately works to reinforce a system built on aggression. a similar form of aggression that fuels revolutionary mind sets.
maybe there's a way to do what i want to do with my work without taking on the world in conflict.
maybe i can follow the models of people like my mom, who just did her own thing or my gal selena, who when asked what kind of tea regular people drink, smiles and quips, "i don't know, i'll ask around, and get back to you."
i think about struggles between imperialists and indigenous people. how it seems to me that cultures which were more matriarchal or less industrialized had only two options: to stand up and fight the imperialist enemy, but thereby becoming more like the imperialists, or to die, but do so by embracing their own ways of life.
this perception of mine, no doubt is informed by a western written history, though.
i wish i knew more about my cherokee ancestors.
curt's response to all this is that i basically "want to be the art dalai lama"
no, i don't. i don't think my inner struggle with the art world has nearly the weight to even amuse myself with that thought... besides, i am in crisis with a culture that doesn't even know i am in crisis with it, much less care.
i just have to sort this stuff out, so i can keep on making things.
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