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Cloud representing the view of democracy by the The Real Outsiders Project. Image by Wayne Chu.
For my current art project, though I have actually been working on it for about a year, I have decided to portray the story of democracy – as best I can.
I am curious about democracy. What is it really? Why is it a goal for so many? Does it really work?
Or is it a façade: disseminated to us when we were really young, a veil? Is it soma created to distract us from thinking about how things otherwise work?
Before I begin it is important to set a stage, not so much a rant (hopefully), but more of a release. A statement about how I got here. Not from the beginning, of course.
Another word cloud with social criticism as its focus. Image from The Democraczy Project and WeHo News.
I won’t bore you with family history, but from a life of observing – tracking – if you will.
Or, as Derrida suggested, becoming aware of trace.
Buckminster Fuller said that kings created universities to give intellectuals something to think about beside what was going on politically.
I want to clarify that I am not opposed to this form that gives most people at least some voice in the matters of their governance, particularly on a local level, but one has to give thought to circumstances on a higher level.
It is said that people created government to accomplish tasks that individuals, or multiple entities, would find cumbersome to complete.
That, of course, begs the questions: who did create this American government?
Who really controls it?
I voted for a president whom I still support, one who promised to roll back provisions of the Patriot Act when he came into office – not to mention closing Guantanamo Bay’s torture and detainment center.
Why, then, has the Patriot Act actually become more onerous during his tenure?
Why does there seem to be a tendency to provide corporations with more “rights” than individual humans?
When I was young people did not think about locking their home or car doors. Since then this country, in particular, seems to have become a more violent place.
There are more pressures: population density, pace, economy, job security, greed. In the past, income from one family member was enough for a respectable existence; now it is not.
However, we have never seriously questioned our (population’s) ability, through voting, to eventually steer things in a direction beneficial to our common purpose.
Generally, when speaking about a democracy, the purposes listed as basic are the access to personal rights and freedoms, safety, and the uninhibited ability to personally progress.
This seems to be a time when we have to question whether we are actually accomplishing those purposes.
If democracy is really a vehicle for putting ourselves in a position to gain these rights and freedoms, it is still very much a work in progress.
The story of this progress really begins 2,500,000 years ago – just a few years before governments existed - with homo habilis.
Visit next week for the beginning of the rest of the tale..
Martin Gantman is a West Hollywood and writer who has exhibited internationally in such venues as AC Direct Gallery and the Alternative Museum, New York; A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago; HAUS, POST, and the Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles; Artetica, Rome and Viareggio, Italy; and La Coruna, Spain.
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