MUST ALSO REFLECT DECAY,
AND UNLESS IT WANTS TO BREAK FAITH
WITH ITS SOCIAL FUNCTION,
ART MUST SHOW THE WORLD AS CHANGEABLE,
AND HELP TO CHANGE IT.
——ERNST
FISCHER A young man who grew up in New York City. I refused to swear allegiance to the flag, and I ended up being sent to the principal's office. The principal asked, "Everyone swears allegiance, why don't you?" I said, "At one time, everyone believed the earth was flat, but it wasn't." I explained that everything America has, and Other countries and cultures belong to the entire earth, and this is what I am willing to swear to. Everyone lives on the earth.
Needless to say, it didn't take long for me to leave school entirely. I set up a lab in my bedroom where I started to learn about science and nature. I realized that the universe obeys certain laws, and human society itself is inevitably under these laws.
Then in 1929, there was a major collapse of society, what we today call the "Great Depression." It's hard for me to understand why thousands of people are unemployed, homeless, and starving, while factories are closed and resources are not changed. Since then, I have come to realize that the rules of the economic game in this society are inherently hopeless.
Soon after, World War II broke out, and countries were taking turns to systematically destroy each other. Later I calculated that the resources destroyed and wasted in this war could easily serve the needs of every human being on the planet.
Since then, I have watched human beings do everything they do to bring about their own demise. I have watched those precious limited resources constantly being wasted and destroyed in the name of profit and free market. I have watched the values of this society reduced to pursuit. Materialism and mindless consumption, I also watched the power of money govern the political system of this so-called free society.
I'm 94 years old and my views on temperament are still the same as 75 years ago.
THE SHIT'S GOT TO GO!
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