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The Art of War
Posted by StarDrifter (Guest) - Monday, December 1 2003, 22:29:32 (EST)
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This thought has been festering in the back of my mind for a long time... Most of the time, it has been just a gnawing feeling, scraping on some inconspicuous region of my brain, until all the grey matter has been reduced to raw ganglia. And then, someone must have said something or something happened that dredged all of the pieces of the puzzle up to the surface... suddenly, I was awake with this one simple thought that seemed to bring everything into focus.
It was one of Fred's previous posts. He was recalling the incident revolving around his sculpture of Shemirum and the incredulous series of events which led him to place his work in storage, where I assume it remains to this day, hidden from the light of day.
I must have filed that information away in some dark recess of my mind to avoid having to reflect on the unpleasant feeling it left in the pit of my stomach, that one of our most brilliant Assyrian artists has been suppressed, his talent condemned to a sort of political limbo, to satisfy the false pride and vanity of one individual.
Then I was thinking about this war and its aftermath in our homeland. War, any war, every war that has ever been fought, is a destroyer not only of those who wage it, but it also destroys human creativity, all works of art and it suppresses the artistic talents inherent in the human race.
The irony, however, is that those who would destroy and suppress the artistic genius and talents of our artists, whether they are sculptors, painters, writers, musicians, etc., are themselves artists of a sort, viz., artists of destruction. Such art is not of course art in the true sense, because it worships, not at the shrine of creation, life, meaning, reality and transcendence, but it chooses rather to drink at the fountain of death and absolute darkness.
Somehow we must protect these artists from those who would exploit their talents for their own advantage. If our artists do not survive, then the human race is doomed to return to the primitive state of our earliest ancestors. This is the real danger today not only in Iraq, but around the world. The seeds of destruction are being planted all around us now, on a global scale. Those who create are vastly outnumbered now by those who destroy. We must find a peaceful way to protect our creator-artists. If we lose them, we have lost everything.
StarDrifter



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