AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Terrorism is the "weapon of the weakest." As long there are strong and there are weak, there will be terrorism. We can kill their master-minds, but new ones will take their place. Mirror, mirror...we can not make them be like us, just like they can't make us be like them. We think we are obviously right. They think they are obviously right. Their own oppressed have to rise up against their oppressive ideologies, just like the settlers rose up against Britain, and then the Yankees rose up against the South, and then the Civil rights leaders rose up and got the black vote, then, finally, women fought for and got the vote and some equal rights, here. (more)

The world is not safe. Look at the kid at UNI who shot up the classroom. The difference is that the Muslims have a cause and the sick American kid went off his Prozac and bought guns at the corner store. I'm learning more about how corporate conglomerates in the U.S. put neurotoxins in our products that cause the depression and disease (they actually make a different line for Europe so they can sell there because the laws are stricter).

I was originally all for taking down Saddam, because of his mass genocide oppressive rule, and I was angry that our government was lying, and not calling a spade a spade..."this is an evil dictator and we need to take him down...the terrorists are mostly in Syria, but Saddam is like Hitler!" I was naive, and now realize that historically, whenever a dictator is taken down, chaos and usually civil war ensue in the subsequent fight for power...and our government even knew that and even anticipated the long war, many are coming forward and admitting, now. The industrial military complex has a lot of power.

I don't think there are any black and white answers to any of this. Artists historically ask the questions...we don't provide the answers..."that's for someone else to do," Michael used to always tell me. I like that...makes me feel a lot better. Cuz I have a lot of questions and there don't seem to be any clear answers. Our economy scares the hell out of me. It's based on consumerism. U.S. citizens are already spending more way more than they have, and it's already way short for a healthy economy, my engineer friend who designs bombs was just telling me. And if the rest of the world starts following our consumer lead, planet Earth will literally be turned into trash! We'll need 4 or 5 more planets to rape.

Most people I know, when they find out what's really going on with our country's oppression of the third world and rape of the earth, want this to stop. But our economy can't survive without it. How can we stop the machine, without destroying the jobs the machine creates for us? We can't! Gary Zukov says the same hands that make bombs can be used to make schools, which is a nice idea. Pretty simplistic, though. We need more then schools instead of bombs, although advanced education is pretty key to enlightenment, not many appreciate it, and without jobs, we're in some deep shit!

My only consolation is that this chaos is all predicted in the dawning of the Aquarian Age, and will catalyze the humanitarian world. But it's gonna take a while...and get worse before it gets better, I suppose...gonna force people to band together to fix this mess. Unfortunately, it usually takes severe suffering for change to happen.

Yet, of course, art gets us through it! So lets just keep asking the questions. That's what we're here for...well, at least, I'm starting to get that that's what I'm here for.

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