Last year, a movie titled American Sniper was released and created a lot of controversy. Audiences were pretty much divided on whether it was uber patriotic or uber insensitive. If your politics were Conservative, you would think that this story about an American sniper in Iraq was definitely pro-American. However, if you were Liberal, you more than likely thought it was highly racist and anti-human beings. This poem was inspired by that controversy.
you can’t praise it just because it denies
or supports your political point of view.
because it's not the way you wish
your reality to be, it’s not the way
you want the world to turn?
born of Earth could look like that!"
Of course she couldn’t. Her reality pours out
onto the canvas through the truth of art . . .
which in itself is a lie . . . a dream . . . a fragile hope
that this existence offers more
than just the constant beating of the clock,
the steady, dreary crawl toward the ever dark.
Woodie o5-o9-15
The painting is by Pablo Picasso
The
Consequence of Art
American Sniper is a movie.
It’s
not reality. You can't condemn it,you can’t praise it just because it denies
or supports your political point of view.
What
“reality” are you talking about?
You
boo this film, condemn itbecause it's not the way you wish
your reality to be, it’s not the way
you want the world to turn?
Do
you look at Picasso’s Girl with Mandolin
And
go, "That painting’s a fake, a lie!
No womanborn of Earth could look like that!"
Of course she couldn’t. Her reality pours out
onto the canvas through the truth of art . . .
which in itself is a lie . . . a dream . . . a fragile hope
that this existence offers more
than just the constant beating of the clock,
the steady, dreary crawl toward the ever dark.
Woodie o5-o9-15
The painting is by Pablo Picasso
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