Comments on: Guerrilla artists target Target http://www.guerrillapoets.org/archives/guerrilla-artists-target-target poetry & percussion to protect the peace Fri, 18 May 2012 11:03:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: josh http://www.guerrillapoets.org/archives/guerrilla-artists-target-target/comment-page-1#comment-70186 josh Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:41:45 +0000 http://www.guerrillapoets.org/?p=344#comment-70186 i watch these videos to inspire a life aloof away from the mire of drone existences, set to expire at 62, 65 ... it just gets higher. The imaginary value that our lives offer, pale to the real value of corporate coffers with their ability to outlaw my love, their conference calls to bomb from above, the theft of my self made culture to sell it back to me, regurgitated by 5th ave. vultures - it is this action that is alive, not the dead consumption they've told us we must buy - it is the voice, the movement, the song that realigns paths to right from wrong. thank you for this great work of conscience, it does a soul good; from the lost voids of the alps in this central european wood. i watch these videos to inspire
a life aloof away from the mire
of drone existences, set to expire
at 62, 65 … it just gets higher.
The imaginary value that our lives offer,
pale to the real value of corporate coffers
with their ability to outlaw my love,
their conference calls to bomb from above,
the theft of my self made culture
to sell it back to me,
regurgitated by 5th ave. vultures -
it is this action that is alive,
not the dead consumption
they’ve told us we must buy -
it is the voice, the movement, the song
that realigns paths to right from wrong.

thank you for this great work of conscience,
it does a soul good;
from the lost voids of the alps
in this central european wood.

]]> By: Shahid http://www.guerrillapoets.org/archives/guerrilla-artists-target-target/comment-page-1#comment-70075 Shahid Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:33:37 +0000 http://www.guerrillapoets.org/?p=344#comment-70075 I'll leave aside the comment about shaving, but do want to address the impact of actions like this. First, the analysis is not whether guerrilla theater alone can shift social policy, but rather whether it can help raise awareness. Consider the counter-factual: these people staying home certainly wouldn't have helped, and because they came out, shot a video and distributed it, hundreds of thousands of viewers have learned more about the issue. Second, it's unfair to judge the impact of any discrete action, as the relevant analysis is of culture as a whole (of which this is of course a mere part). It's ubiquity that gives conscious art gains its strength -- isolated voices are dismissed as crackpots, but when Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, John Pryor and John Lennon were spitting similar themes, they were hard to ignore. I’ll leave aside the comment about shaving, but do want to address the impact of actions like this. First, the analysis is not whether guerrilla theater alone can shift social policy, but rather whether it can help raise awareness. Consider the counter-factual: these people staying home certainly wouldn’t have helped, and because they came out, shot a video and distributed it, hundreds of thousands of viewers have learned more about the issue. Second, it’s unfair to judge the impact of any discrete action, as the relevant analysis is of culture as a whole (of which this is of course a mere part). It’s ubiquity that gives conscious art gains its strength — isolated voices are dismissed as crackpots, but when Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, John Pryor and John Lennon were spitting similar themes, they were hard to ignore.

]]> By: Joe http://www.guerrillapoets.org/archives/guerrilla-artists-target-target/comment-page-1#comment-70065 Joe Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:22:02 +0000 http://www.guerrillapoets.org/?p=344#comment-70065 Love the initiative, wonder about the impact, but please, get that lady to shave !!!! Shaving and bathing baby, shaving and bathing will get your fat ass laid sweetheart ! Love the initiative, wonder about the impact, but please, get that lady to shave !!!! Shaving and bathing baby, shaving and bathing will get your fat ass laid sweetheart !

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