Infozine posted my blog of Monday on out-of-control radio stations, and that pathetic spot on The Buzz. Good. Then let something worthwhile about the whole mess begin from here. For you parents, please just remember, stations like this are interfering in the raising of our kids. It ain’t like we don’t have already have enough negative influences to counteract without these clowns making it worse.  Hey, I don’t care what they do on their own time, but when they’re on the air, that’s another matter.
Think I’m uninformed? Hell, man, I grew up in the 70s. I’ve seen all that destruction: the wasted lives, suicides, car wrecks and addictions. All I’m asking for here is dignity and consideration–though that may be a lot to ask of certain stations these days.
As always, so many interesting ideas being bantered about. Marvelous to see the questions being generated. Somehow it all seems to boil down to the human predilection to judge each other, and sometimes very harshly, sometimes cruelly, sometimes unforgivably. This always proves to be detrimental and often in insidious creeping underbelly ways which are predictable only in terms of being a given, and eventually generating a backlash, many extreme examples (I consider genocide an extreme example) of which we have seen demonstrated in our lifetimes and continues to be an issue in both global and in the more general sense of judging personal arenas). Charlie Rose put together an interesting panel which discussed the Don Imus issue, among other things, on the show that aired last night and what struck me beyond the variety of cogency of each of the commentators is how complicated it all is, even amidst a table full of actively engaged, insightful individuals, we dance around and point to little spots (and who can help but notice that our entire planet is a tiny spot) but in the end the fight between “good and evil” rages on internally (if we are honest) and externally unless we’re comatose (and sometimes it appears to me as if we are) or in the case of those in the grips of drugs and alcohol abuse, prefer to be, choose to be, and then loose the ability to choose whether permanently or temporarily. The question remains where do we draw the line in the sand and what do we do about it when that line is crossed. I don’t think we’ve done a very good job, wave that flag all you want, of correctly defining the first issue which leaves the second issue in unsavory disarray and perpetuates a good deal of “black hole”sort of energy which is desperately needed for dealing with global concerns that put issues of our children’s futures, drug addicted rebels or countless varieties of otherwise, at equal opportunity risk.
I stated that some acts are unforgivable, and yet what example do all the great leaders we claim to revere from Christ to Ghandi to King to every wisdom tradition I have encountered demonstrate? Forgiveness is exactly what is required. Why? Are heinous acts truly forgivable? Obviously not. Becasue it sucks energy desperately needed to properly tend and care for those who need tending and caring? I suspect this is closer to the heart of the matter. I feel fairly certain that this was the message Ghandi intended grasping the lapels of his assassin and with his dying breath looking him in the eyes and telling him clearly, unequivocably, I forgive you. Do I practice what’s been preached? It’s a struggle, it’s an equal opportunity daily struggle. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your own and giving the rest of us this forum. I enjoy reading your comments and one that sank in slowly but that retrospectively I really appreciated was your stated awareness in the aftermath of 9/11 that what you were viewing was a mass grave. That is the important truth, we continue to dig mass graves.
I have seen some of his work in the Met but didn’t know much about him. He certainly had a vision about his work .
My name is Robert Carbonell Artist of contemporary art born in Barcelona, Will expose his recent work in the collective exhibition of the Icosahedron gallery of New York. Day 8 of June of the 2007 , In that It participated with 10 works, Thanks