10, 000 Beautiful Years - was: Why I Published Those Cartoons

Posted by Dede Densmore-2 on Feb 27, 2006; 6:14pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Washington-Post-Why-I-Published-Those-Cartoons-tp521421p521445.html

Steve,
  I know you didn't intend it, but that was a rotten thing to do to my
morning. I will defend to the death your and Mr. Lux's right to say
these things, but I wish you'd warned me first so I could exercise my
right not to read them. No, of course I don't want parental guidance
labels on FRIAM e-mails. On the other hand, this does raise interesting
questions on the umm ... artistic quality? artistic validity? ethics?  
of adding more really ugly images to a world already filled with them.
Is there a thread here? Or one for Friday?
Dede
On Feb 26, 2006, at 9:00 PM, steve smith wrote:

>>
>>> They do this, we do that.
>>> The fued continues,
>>> as fueds always have
>>> and always will
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>> I sure hope the vicious cycle stop, if there is a future for humanity
>> beyond
>> the next 100 or so years.
>
> I submit to you all, the following poem.
>
> From:
> http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/97_98/lux.html
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> THE PEOPLE OF THE OTHER VILLAGE
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> hate the people of this village
> and would nail our hats
> to our heads for refusing in their presence to remove them
> or staple our hands to our foreheads
> for refusing to salute them
> if we did not hurt them first: mail them packages of rats,
> mix their flour at night with broken glass.
> We do this, they do that.
> They peel the larynx from one of our brothers? throats.
> We devein one of their sisters.
> The quicksand pits they built were good.
> Our amputation teams were better.
> We trained some birds to steal their wheat.
> They sent to us exploding ambassadors of peace.
> They do this, we do that.
> We canceled our sheep imports.
> They no longer bought our blankets.
> We mocked their greatest poet
> and when that had no effect
> we parodied the way they dance
> which did cause pain, so they, in turn, said our God
> was leprous, hairless.
> We do this, they do that.
> Ten thousand (10,000) years, ten thousand
> (10,000) brutal, beautiful years.
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> from SPLIT HORIZON, (Houghton Mifflin, 1994)
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> ? 1995-2006 Dia Art Foundation
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