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Poets Are Political, They Have To Be Reflections Of Their Times [because] They're Living In Their Times... Poetry Is Political In That It's Standing In Opposition To Fascism. Good Poetry Asks A Bunch Of Questions And Asks The Audience To Interact With Themselves Or See Themselves In It; Maybe You Like It Or You Don't Like It. But The Fascist Sort Of Stuff Plays On Your Fears And Tells You To Jump On The Party Line And Gives Some Simple Excuses - Blame This Person.

It's Supposed To Feel Good To Throw A Brick At The Right People. There Is A Long Tradition Of Naming And Ridiculing And Shaming And Calling The Villains What They Are. Usually It Was The Artistocracy Of The Day And Satire Was The Only Way To Speak Truth To Power.

My Dad Had A Commercial Film Company, So He Had A Videotape Player Before Anyone. So He Got Mel Brooks Movies Or Citizen Kane Or Some Classic Old Movies. And Every Summer The Revival House In Evanston Would Show The Great Films From The '50s And '60s And '70s.

There Are Some Good People. But A Good Chunk Of Them Will Lie For No Reason At All - It'll Be Ten O'clock And They'll Tell You It's Nine. You're Looking At The Clock And You Can't Even Fathom Why They're Lying. They Just Lie Because That's What They Do.

Don't Buy Into The Corporate Mythology That's Been Rammed Down Our Throats For All These Years.