Hugo Chavez Comments

Why should politics not be a fit subject for artists to contemplate? The greatest world artists, from millennia ago until the 20th Century considered the nature of power and how power corrupts. (This changed greatly in the 20th Century, with the rise of academicism in the Arts!) I'm glad to see Mr. Morrissey addressing these issues. Personally, I think it advisable to remember what Emily Dickinson wrote: Tell all the Truth/ But tell it slant. We must be careful about being too direct when taking on these issues. Why? Because most people have been misled and propagandized for decades. They must be eased in to Truth. For a very few, Truth can come as a Zen slap across the face; but most people in our sleeping cultures must be beguiled- eased in- by the beauty and power of imagery or the music of the words.- Gary Corseri