Comments on: The artist against the system https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/ NoMoreFakeNews.com Mon, 07 Apr 2014 05:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.10 By: Pedro https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1257 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 05:16:30 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1257 A curious mixture of things. The thing is, it’s not either/or. Either/or is the problem; it’s reductive, oversimplified. It is not either individualism or collectivism. Can we define “individual”? What is that exactly? Someone who doesn’t exist in the world, who has invented his or her own language from scratch? Take away the world, and the people in it, and the “individual” ceases to exist. The danger is in the extremes — extreme individualism and extreme collectivism. Collaborating is something far different than the generalized term “collectivism,” which are distinctions I have not heard Jon Rappoport speak of (though I haven’t seen or heard all of his stuff). People are generally far more creative when collaborating, cooperating. If we collaborate or cooperate, does that mean we go must necessarily then fall into the pit of a collectivist zombie crowd? Of course not. There can be good individualism (MLK, Rosa Parks, Chomsky, Zinn, etc) and bad individualism (Ayn Rand, Hitler, etc), as well as good collectivism (cooperation, etc) and bad collectivism (armies marching off to war). It all comes down to the tone, the vibration, of everything. Capitalism encourages a very intense form of individualism (atomize people and you can get them to buy more than they need, and control them more easily), yet an individual who acts with a good energy (for good principles, to help others, to make his or her life better, etc) is a great thing. And that individual acting together with other individuals who have the same good energy — that is the best of all. We are individuals (despite how difficult it is to define what that means, we feel it) and that is important, and we are social creatures, as well. We are not one or the other, we are both. And probably a lot more. We are not either/or, we are both/and. An artist who simple rebels to rebel probably isn’t a very good artist; but an artist who rebels for the right reasons, for good principles, for compassionate and loving motives… now there’s something worth creating. It’s not just create to create, it’s envisioning and creating what is truly worthwhile for both the individual and the common good.

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By: Fiddling while Rome burns us | Consentient https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1256 Tue, 07 Jan 2014 02:06:45 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1256 […] as poetry and art is. Booth seems to suggest that being too artistic is a problem, but I think that Jon Rappoport has brilliantly shown that art, imagination and autonomy are all inextricably […]

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By: Michael https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1255 Wed, 22 May 2013 18:25:00 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1255 “Every young man’s heart, is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists, but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.” -Malraux

Bravo Jon, well said…..you are not alone.
I say your reason to be here is to imagine and create your own….if that is not happening, then I am afraid you are already dead….you just haven’t step into your grave.

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By: The staging of reality, the staging of news; they’re the same thing. | Ronmamita's Blog https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1254 Sat, 11 May 2013 15:36:54 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1254 […] “The artist proliferates. He doesn’t reduce. The artist isn’t looking for the “one thing” that will unite us all under a banner of harmony. He knows all such harmonies wear out and are eventually co-opted to produce mass hypnosis.” ~The artist against the system down through time […]

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By: James With https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1253 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:53:30 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1253 Reblogged this on jameswith and commented:

Jon Rappoport Bio

Jon Rappoport has worked as a free-lance investigative reporter for over 30 years.

He has written articles on politics, health, media, culture and art for LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, Village Voice, Nexus, CBS Healthwatch, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.

In 1982, the LA Weekly submitted his name for a Pulitzer prize, for his interview with the president of El Salvador University, where the military had taken over the campus.

Jon has hosted, produced, and written radio programs and segments in Los Angeles and Las Vegas (KPFK, KLAV). He has appeared as a guest on over 200 radio and television programs, including ABC’s Nightline, Tony Brown’s Journal (PBS), and Hard Copy.

In 1994, Jon ran for a seat in the US Congress from the 29th district in Los Angeles. After six months of campaigning, on a very small budget, he garnered 20 percent of the vote running against an incumbent who had occupied his seat for 20 years.

In 1996, Jon started The Great Boycott, against eight corporate chemical giants: Monsanto, Dow, Du Pont, Bayer, Hoechst, Rhone-Poulenc, Imperial Chemical Industries, and Ciba-Geigy. The Boycott continues to operate today.

Jon has lectured extensively all over the US on the question: Who runs the world and what can we do about it?

For the last ten years, Jon has operated largely away from the mainstream because, as he puts it, “My research was not friendly to the conventional media.”

Over the last 30 years, Jon’s independent research has encompassed such areas as: deep politics, conspiracies, alternative health, the potential of the human imagination, mind control, the medical cartel, symbology, and solutions to the takeover of the planet by hidden elites.

A painter, Jon’s work has been shown in galleries in Los Angeles and New York. His poetry has been published by The Massachusetts Review.

He is a graduate of Amherst College (BA, Philosophy), and lives with his wife, Dr. Laura Thompson, in San Diego.

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By: infinitecontactee https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1252 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:09:03 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1252 Jon, being an artist is one of the reasons I love reading your blogs. It’s time everyone was connecting with his or her own Inner Creator – that’s where it all begins. Everyone is in some respect and artist, a creator – whether through art, performing art, or any field requiring the infusion of something new. Time we all woke up to that idea and embrace our greatest strength: imagination. Einstein had a lot to say about that, and maybe it’s time to hear it. Thanks.

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By: hybridrogue1 https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1251 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:13:51 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1251 I think it in the nature of politics; the process itself – one that sees to “Organization,” that produces “Leaders” – those ‘active men’ who by their activities gain POWER.

And we know the corrosive nature of political power, we have seen these cycles turn throughout the centuries if we have paid attention to the lessons of history.

It is the organization of “government” itself that is the mistake. It is in the individual giving his power away to any collective idea that is the mistake.
Any collective activity must be viewed as exceedingly temporary, for the “consensus” achieved to put it into motion is certainly temporary. And many will be to the point of thinking, “this is not what I was counting on…” before any long term idea is fulfilled.

I will repeat that I think “government” is a juvenile concept, one that the human race needs to find the maturity to grow out of.

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By: earthheal https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1250 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:10:59 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1250 Hi Jon

I’d like to repost this great piece of writing in full on my site (www.earth-heal.com), with your permission, please….. ?

Edna Spennato

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email Jon: http://nomorefakenews.com/contactus.html

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By: hybridrogue1 https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1249 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:34:37 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1249 On this theme:

ART AND ARTIST by Otto Rank…important book, the inspiration for Beckers DENIAL OF DEATH.

I thank my grandfather for recognizing me as an artist at around five years old, and encouraging that in me as long as he was here on Earth.

Art is not a ‘business’ it is a way of life.

This article is a real beauty Jon, thank you.

Willy Whitten

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By: Louis Dallara https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2012/12/25/the-artist-against-the-system/#comment-1248 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 23:32:09 +0000 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=2983#comment-1248 Food for the artist to create a new world

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