Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the virtually unlimited application of Eminent Domain. The seizure of individuals' property-- private homes and small businesses-- by government, to be turned over to Wal-Marts and huge monied developers building luxury condos for rich people, which has been happening throughout the country, has been legalized. We see the continued imposition of monopoly and extreme wealth on the American economy.
LITERATURE years ago was captured by conglomerate monopolies and by the nation's wealthiest class of people, who operate hand-in-hand, side-by-side. Which group of writers stands forcefully, vociferously, without pause, without compromise, against this artistic dictatorship? Only the Underground Literary Alliance.
When most lit people see Rick Moody (Hiram F. Moody III) they see the pose he's constructed of sensitive liberal pseudo-hip artiste apparently divorced from the sins and happenings of the world. When I see Moody's involvement with arts foundations, colonies, and government agencies, I see the representative of big monied interests.
The question is how long lit people like Nathalie Chica and Maud Newton will continue to live in their self-created Disneylands, blind to the way society and arts creation and promotion ACTUALLY works?
Fool or knaves? Knaves guiding fools; an island of cynical magicians and demi-puppet illusion.
The only way the monopolistic art situation can be overturned is through the force of ideas. Our campaign from the first has been a war of ideas. When we "crashed" readings we were attempting to argue our ideas-- to introduce dissent into a closed lit-society, of go-along writers, which had shut off debate about the realities of who owns literature and how it operates.
We aren't going to make change by whispering. The ULA mocks and attacks because we need to awaken brains; to cause writers in the System to THINK-- a proposition which for them is truly scary.
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i am being honest when i say that i don't understand what this post is talking about
who else is working with rick moody to destroy poor people?
The Corporate-Moody Cabal oppresses everyone, not just the poor, ya know.
5 corporations own 90% of the media, and have 9% of the rest slavishly imitating them and showing how good they can jump thru hoops without being asked. If a writer signs with the Big 5 they pave the way to instant bestseller status. Rick doesn't have to get his linen suit sweaty. Enough early orders are placed just because a book is from one of the Bigs to do the trick---before the public has even had a chance to read it.
But to get such a deal a writer has to show thru eager demonstration of self-censorship that they won't write about anything that matters. Indeed, they show that they will add to the social confusion, murk and malaise with their work. Verily, many of their books will be depressing (so that coy blog-lurkers will read them). A writer who tries to touch on the truth of our culture has to hide such efforts in thousands of pages and dense prose that only a few will catch and which surely won't start any kind of social snowballing or outreach.
In exchange, they get enough cash to keep up with fancy lunches and the costs of living on an exclusive island near Manhattan.
Every now and then an indy title breaks through, but Fancy Lads only sign with them as a last resort or use them as a stepping stone to the Cabal.
Wouldn't it be something if a new star was added to the firmament? If an indy press published something of wide note (and inevitable notoriety) and rose up to spar with the Big 5 head to head? If talent busted out to compete with glitz and snobbery?
It would be good for the heritage and memory of the recent generations if we can tell our grandkids that it happened at least once. Wouldn't that be something? Grove Press was LONG AGO.
When's the next big thing going to hit? You know there will be jail-time.
And what will this new work deal with? Well, it will obviously feature plain talk about things like work, war, terror, gender, race, sex, class, money, nature---the basic things that haven't been creatively dealt with, with candor, in decades. It'll cause a ruckus. (This is the land of the free! You can't say that!)
But of course it'll all play out differently, too. Corporations learned from the 60's---so maybe there won't be any jail-time---that only gives prestige to a writer. How is truth kept down today?
"Well, it will obviously feature plain talk about things like work, war, terror, gender, race, sex, class, money, nature---the basic things that haven't been creatively dealt with, with candor, in decades."
what a bullshit statement
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