Allison Croggin writes

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>those kinds of polarities.  And didn't Camus say
>something like, just because they act badly, does mean
>that we should too?  Or more - that if others act
>badly, it is even more important that we should act
>well.


This strikes me as a rare occasion when the ad hominem approach is called
for. Are there any out there who can tell us how well Camus acted ?

That aside, I want to say I have sympathy with Allison's viewpoint.
Precisely, it is because an entrenched Mainstream denies to us areas where
our poetry should have a chance to act well, that we deplore said
Mainstream. And  of course, this is what Power does : takes away the
possibility for people to be heard, and then tells them to speak up. Tells
them they alone are responsible for their disenfranchisement. Like a soccer
player throwing his arms in the air as an opponent crashes to the turf,
they at once deny and disclose their guilt.

The part of her post that hit hardest, for me, concerned the appointment of
those who cant even read music, to music adjudication panels. So it isnt
even Salieri who is doing you in, Mozartean Sibs!  No, instead we find
politically safe persons being appointed to these panels by foundations
terrified of the politically powerful. Persons who dont want to admit that
some people enjoy having a forearm up their rear end, nor that photos of
such can comment on the art of the camera, art more generally, or the
relation of the individual to the power-structure.


Senator, what do you think?

I dont want the Gt Amrrcn Public to see what we're doing to them!  Whatever
happened to all those sailboats in a harbor? At cocktail hour--uh, sunset...


David






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