25-02-2013, 03:10 PM
Rick Ryan Wrote:By the way, this project was never intended in to be any kind of political statement. There is no sensationalism in this song or its visual production and it has nothing to do with ideological agendas, conspiracy theories or the like . It's simply a look back at that dark day in Dallas almost a half a century behind us and its far-reaching effects it's had on our nation and the world.
As a writer of prose and dramatic fiction (and, FWIW, as a close friend of the late lyricist Sammy Cahn), my advocacy of the unique power of art to effect change -- positive and negative -- on scales from personal to global is second to none.
Your goal in creating the project is your business.
But I must ask for clarification: How exactly to you expect your project to inform "young people today [who] aren't fully aware of the lasting effect President Kennedy's assassination has had on our country and the world over the past fifty years" if you denude it of the style and content without which such awareness is impossible to stimulate?
Are you arguing that artistic expression can exist absent the artist's point of view?
Are you suggesting that your project is not informed by your point of view on the assassination?
How would that be possible, if you don't mind the question?
And please give serious thought to the greater meanings of Peter Lemkin's admonition regarding conspiracy "theory" and fact.
Thanks.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene