ARTISTS VS TYRANTS
HOW MANY CENTURIES HAVE TRAVELED THESE
LANDS WHEREBY FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION COWERED BENEATH THE TYRANNY OF SMALL-MINDED BARBARIANS. HOW MANY GREAT WORKS OF ART FAILED TO COME TO FRUITION DUE TO THE THREATS AND INTIMIDATIONS OF SMALL-MINDED BIG-CLUBBED HIGH-TECH LOW-BROWED BARBARIANS. HOW DEATHLY SILENT CAN GENERATIONS OF ARTISTS BE RELATIVE TO EXPRESSING AN HONEST OPINION IN REGARD TO THE WAR LOVERS, WAR MAKERS, WAR MONGERS? IS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION TO BE BOTH COWER-LY CURTAILED AND MOLDED ACCORDING TO THE PRE-APPROVED NARROWNESS OF SHRUNKEN HEADS IN INFLATED PLACES? IS ART TO BE FOREVER IMPALED UPON A FENCE NEVER TO INSPIRE POIGNANT REFLECTION UPON ANYTHING? CAN GENERATIONS OF ARTISTS SELF-IMPALE THEMSELVES UPON THIS NON-OFFENSIVE-MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROADISM FENCE SO AS TO PLEASE EVERYONE AT ALL TIMES WITH HAPPY NAMBY PAMBY NOTHINGNESS ART FOREVER? ARE ARTISTS TO BE MARRIONETTED PUPPETS DROOLINGLY IN TUNE WITH THE MANDATES OF THE MADMEN OF THIS WORLD? CANNOT ART COME TO FRUITION TO AWAKEN TRUTHS WHICH HAVE LAIN DORMANT AND FORGOTTEN FOR GENERATIONS OR AT LEAST BRAVELY RESURRECT TRUTHS WHICH HAVE COWERED IN FEAR OF INQUISITORIAL AUTO-DA-FE’S OF THE OPEN-MIND? HOW CIVILIZED CAN A SOCIETY BE WHICH JADEDLY BELIEVES ART SHOULD NOT OFFEND ANYONE ESPECIALLY RELATIVE TO POLITICAL VIEWS. HOW ENLIGHTENED WILL A MIND BECOME WHILE FOREVER BANNING DIVERSITY OF OPINION [ ARE YOU LISTENING R.A.A. + H.A.C. ? of Eureka, Ca]??? WE WHO ARE ARTISTS SEE NOT THIS AS THE TIME TO SHUT UP. IN TIMES OF NARROW MINDS, ART CAN & SHALL FREE THE MANY FROM THE TYRANNY OF THE FEW.