[-empyre-] the act of forgetting

[Simon Biggs]

Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" portrays the kind of events you mention in your
earlier post about trains and water, how people take control and the affects
of that upon those caught up in events. His most recent film, "Ghost Writer"
updates the theme. It's part of the role of artists to ensure we don't
forget.

Best

Simon


On 12/03/2011 05:56, "Joel Tauber" <joeltauber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Although we are all bombarded by seemingly endless amounts of imagery and
> ³news², I am convinced that we are also all suffering from information
> deprivation, and in a multiplicity of ways.  While media conglomerates and
> government powers shield information from us continually ­ and spin the
> information that we are being fed ­ I think we are also all guilty of
> collectively forgetting our histories.  Information is ignored even when we
> have access to it.   Certain things are just too difficult to face.
> Government
> handouts, unregulated corporations, corporate takeovers of the media and of
> the government, industry¹s devastation of the environmentS  These are very
> old stories.  Why should we be surprised by these things when they continue
> to happen?  How can we continue to allow them to occur?


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