| Bio: | Anthropologist and Aesthetic Realism Consultant. Recently finished a novel, "Gwe: Young Man of New Guinea--a novel against racism." Working on second edition of "Were They Equal?" an illustrated story based on popular West African tale about Tortoise, Elephant, and Hippopotamus.
One of my favorite links is this (see my posts for more): (1) The commentary "Jobs, Discontent, and Beauty" by Ellen Reiss for The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known. This discussion of America's unjust profit-driven economic system and the great Robert Burns of Scotland--a poet who was intensely opposed to this kind of economics--is a masterpiece. Ms. Reiss begins: "The huge discontent of Americans—on assembly lines, at computers, in trucks, operating machines of every kind, on construction sites, in fields, working in hospitals—is part of that historic occurrence which Eli Siegel identified and explained in 1970. He showed, with opulent evidence, that economics based on using human beings for profit had failed and would never recover..." |
