Inter-Galactic
ARTS & MEDIA WORKERS
ManiFesto
"The world is in a race now. On the one side is 19th-century thinking, in which the globe is divided into nations with irreconcilable hatreds of one another and in which each nation arrogates to itself the right to do any harm at all to Earth as a whole in the name of 'national security.' On the other side is a sense of wholeness that brings human beings together against the true enemies of all humanity----war, terrorism, alienation, disease, poverty, pollution and degradation of the environment.
Racing on behalf of wholeness is the communications revolution. May it go the distance!"
------Isaac Asimov
As artists and media workers, we strive to stimulate the human imagination to visualize a positive future --- an achievable, tranquil and harmonious era when
PEACE IS OUR NEXT GREAT ADVENTURE!
It is time to convert our destructive powers into cooperation, to "beat swords into plowshares" and to bring all of our tremendous resources, mental and physical, to bear on the challenge of manifesting peace, health, equality, abundance and happiness on a global scale. We believe it is the true function of the artist to participate instrumentally in this refocusing of human energy and human will towards the creation of global unity.
As conscious arts and media workers and as responsible members of human society and of the planetary ecosystem, we chose to create and celebrate wholeness and well-being in our lives and in the lives of our great-great-grandchildren, today and everyday!
Arts and media work is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul, to reinforce values that make society truly humane and global, and to be kind to the earth and all other species too.
If we refrain from doing this work, a chasm will remain unbridged. Nothing can rival the power of arts and media in this endeavor.
We are so deeply indebted to past generations that we can't afford not to be deeply aware of those coming along after us. How much do we love them? What are we leaving for them? Are we building their "house" well?
It is in the nature of love to stretch and transcend limits. Now it is our turn to act out of love: love for the earth, for the animals, and for all of our children.
WE MUST GIVE TO OURSELVES, AND TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF ALL AGES, RACES AND CREEDS, AN IRRESISTABLE ALTERNATIVE ---- A STUNNING AND COMPELLINGLY BEAUTIFUL VISION OF A HUMANE, JUST, ABUNDANT AND HARMONIOUS WORLD. FOR THE VISION PRECEEDS THE MANIFESTATION.
"Art is not done to decorate an apartment;
it is an instrument of war,
defense and offense against the enemy."
----PICASSO
"We have met the enemy,
and they is us."
----POGO
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----Phoenix & Arabeth
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