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 E-mail: mwb2-AT-netside.net Index to Web Sites: http://www.mosquito.com/~mwb2
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