pacifism

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
in part

> But yesterday I had the opportunity to view the WTC art work of
> children
> here. 
> I think the world must see this art as often as they have seen the
> Hollywood / Tube
> pornography shots of the planes and the collapse of the towers.

It was the act which is obscene, not the representation of the act.  I
do think we would agree that all of us make ourselves aware of the
distortions inherent in the repetitive representation and their
linkages with other images.  Images such as those of little children
holding hands, and of their artwork stuck on fences, for instance.
 
> Kids have a need to express themselves and they are, in their art,
> poems, drawings on the sidewalks, in the street, in their
> performances,
> the toys and remembrances they carry around. This should be seen by
> the
> world. There is so much these kids can teach us. 

Negative. There is much we must teach these children.  This is a
typical, and typically pernicious, romantic inversion of the kind of
adult/child relationship that pervades and debases our culture.

> I don't think it's time to point fingers, as the one of children
> said,
> "it's time to hold hands."

But it is perfectly plain where the finger should point: at the men who
ran three planes into three buildings, and a fourth into the ground. 
It is a morally reprehensible act to refuse to acknowledge this.  It
may be time for the children (who were targets of these men as well) to
hold hands with one another. It is time, please, for adults to act
their age.

Mark

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