File spoon-archives/surrealist.archive/surrealist_1996/96-09-03.184, message 56


Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:55:09 -0400
From: Michael Betancourt <mwb2-AT-netside.net>
Subject: Dead Horses


A few thoughts about what's really going on in the Revolting Discussion.

It has always struck me that Surrealism is the movement of unconscious
desires, beliefs, actions into the conscious realm so the we can thereby
arrive at a new poetry. This means (almost as an incidental side-effect) the
death of morality, ethics, limitations, etc -- what ever you want to call it
-- because these explicity and implicity act to limit our exploration, and
if not limit it directly, then control what we may return with and make our
art from... Ultimately it amounts to the same thing: exploring areas that
are "NOT TO BE EXPLORED"; taboo places that we declare no longer (not
really) taboo.

It is the creation of poetry (and by this I mean ART) that lies at the
center of all these explorations. If we come back with morality we stopped
at the gate with its big cardboard sign saying "No Admittance (Please stay
out or you'll upset the children)." It is this same mind-set that tries to
reduce all our cultures (all over the world) to one homogenized, pasteurized
and made safe for the average 12 year-old mentality. To accept any kind of
limit on exploration is to stay home, and not go exploring.

With this question the answer is simply "yes" or "no"; there is no "perhaps"
here if we are truly surrealists or wish to be associated with it.

-- Michael Betancourt
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