EMERGENCE
the power of intention (stimulated by thoughts of Alain Ruche (AR) *
Difficult as it may seem,
we who know of others
fleeing terrible wars
or round-ups and arrests,
or those escaping genocides –
in Palestine
in Nicaragua**
in Azerbaijan
from Turks against the Kurds
or blue against red states
will soon tragically see that we are they
in Europe and the US
and they are us.
These impending tragedies,
are about to worsen
in Europe and the US
as wealthy thugs take over the White House,
causing their further unleashing of propaganda
whipping-up hatred
against those turned into the OTHER:
”subhuman pet eating vicious drug peddling rapists” etc.
PEOPLE ARE WONDERING
how many assaults*** upon the American people will there have to be
in the next two years
before those who voted these immoral psychopaths into power
awaken to the horrible truth
of what they have unleashed on their elderly,
their students,
their children,
their unemployed,
their homeless,
and those suffering from pregnancy health issues?
WHERE WILL THE FIGHT BACK ARISE?
Always, throughout history,
significant art has created
an enduring confrontation between artists and the status quo.
This is because the finest of our humanity have been able to see
and have been compelled to comment on the state of our inhumanity.
It’s upsetting to witness in the arts today
the ‘how’ or ‘process’
is considered more important than the ‘consequences’,
or the end production.
There are many politically correct*** matters surrounding this,
as for instance, it is repeated that ‘one must encourage and not criticise’.
And of course,
professional critics enjoy leading us into the wonderland of process
rather than to discuss the meanings inherent to the work…
because questioning consequences
could lead to questioning the legitimacy or their authority,
or to radical beliefs emerging
that would question the validity and actions of the status quo.
Mssr. Ruche recognised the importance and power of emergence,
which I believe refers back to the above
in which the power of intention
(for instance, one must not criticise)
manifests itself in emergence.
Thus emergence is the vehicle in which meaning is transported
from early awakening of unconsciousness, nightmares and dreams,
into consciousness in the wilds of the artist’s critical
often apparently irrational perceptions.
Mssr. Ruche has come to recognise that he is not only an observer
but as well a participant in society and in his own life.
He realised he was facing a conceptual emergency
in the contradictions between what he wished to be reality
and what was actual reality.
This he has said has led him into Cognitive Dissonance****
He had been learning how to be comfortable in an unstable,
demanding and ever more complex world.
I believe that Mssr. Ruche is finding peace within himself
but it may also be a way to recognise
that as the culture becomes more deeply tied into Artificial Intelligence,
as our bodies are fed by ever less natural foods
and as we become even more alienated from nature,
there is little peace to be found within it,
especially for members of older generations
who grew up in less alienating circumstances.
And now, whilst Orange and his cabinet cohort
of incompetent, inexperienced fellow rapists and female hating thugs
set out to make millions for the few
and little for the millions through dividing the people against each other
I remember this story.
SHARING LIVES
Years ago I had a friend called Roger
who was a shop steward on the rail.
He told me this story.
His rail gang, repairing the tracks
was composed of 5 Irish navies and 2 West Indians.
When they all gathered for the first time
in a rail-side shed out of the cold
to make ‘a brew up’ (tea and biscuits),
the Irish lads refused to share with the West Indians.
Those Irish, so discriminated against by the English,
seemed to need someone less powerful and more different than themselves
to express power over.
Roger asked them if they believed they has more in common
with the men sitting amongst them on a rainy cold day in a tin shed,
men they lifted rails with and pounded wedges into place with
or did they have more in common with a multimillionaire Irish banker.
They forever after made tea and shared biscuits together.