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Comment on A Little History by The Silver Spring Penguin » Blog Archive » This Weekend

The Silver Spring Penguin » Blog Archive » This Weekend — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:40:29 +0000

[...] p.m. The theater project eXtreme eXchange rolls out “Rock the Voting Bloc”, a series of short plays on this year’s [...]

Comment on Home – Welcome to the eXtreme eXchange blog! by Mary Resing

Mary Resing — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:41:53 +0000

Wow, last night’s vp debate was so entertaining, we should just reenact it.

Comment on Candidate Profile #1: Joe Biden by Convention-palooza « eXtreme eXchange

Convention-palooza « eXtreme eXchange — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:49:59 +0000

[...] the blue corner we’ve got Joe Biden, who was our first profile of our Adopt-A-Candidate X Play Edition last November. Biden’s experience as Chairman of [...]

Comment on Candidate Profile #1: Joe Biden by Biden Rawks

Biden Rawks — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:04:45 +0000

I hope Senator Obama picks him as his Veep.

Comment on Survey Results – Part One by hey, i wrote a play « words from hanvnah

hey, i wrote a play « words from hanvnah — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:14:39 +0000

[...] us what’s on your mind via the online Politically Fringe-alicious Survey (check out some results here and here) and in five days, XX artists will create a sequence of short plays that are irreverent, [...]

Comment on Candidate Profile #11: Barack Obama by Belle

Belle — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:34:43 +0000

A legacy is a legacy. Dominance and submission started with the fight to creep out of the primordial sea and get laid on the beach. You’re uncomfortable because you, personally were not the enslaver. The fact is that Americans (for the sake of this argument) have not managed to overcome that enslaver legacy, and that’s what really bugs you (it is the same enslaver/dominator mentality that led us into Iraq, and, coming soon: Iran!)

That enslaver legacy, e.g. kidnapping, degradation, deculturation, exploitation, humiliation, segregation…pick an “ation”, has left a good many slave descendants on the very bottom of, well, everything. This complicates our feelings, having been raised in this erstwhile and presently ostensible “land of opportunity”. Bootstraps, baby, bootstraps.

What is truly at the very root of this issue is the political and economic hegemony of corporate capitalism. (yawn) Of course there are still racists, but when the big picture is explored, demographics trump race, but corporate capitalism trumps all.

When property ownership and the commodification of goods became the means to power (Thank you Akkadians!!), humans began an 11,000 year slide down the slippery slope to corporate personhood. In the interim we’ve done a lot of cool stuff, but we have failed to recognize our behaviors and indeed utilize our most powerful gift: Syllogism. We, as a species fail miserably at anticipating the consequences of our actions and acting toward best possible outcomes. I mean, really…!

And here, I return to my perception of your discomfort which appears more complex than at first blush. If you are not responsible for slavery, and you are discomfitted by those who still wield it as an issue, I would suggest that you’re discomfort really stems from a frustration that we have not yet solved the problems stemming from the hegemony that condoned enslavement (capitalist/dominator); moreover, we have not recognized, or perhaps admitted that corporate capitalism (CC) and its adjutant activities is now codified, (and poorly regulated!) behavior akin to those ruled by religious dogma.

If those who took this CC behavioral path, or any of those who followed in that path were collectively transpersonally conscious enough to extrapolate the seemingly inevitable consequences of their folly–truly failing to recognize somewhere along the line the historical pattern of established societies exhausting their available resources and having to move or fight over resources with their neighbors–perhaps the legacies of genocides and slaveries would not now haunt us.

So the question becomes not about the next hundred years, but the next forever, or indeed, right now. Lennon’s dreamers are not the only ones, but we have to find a means to overcome willful ignorance and intransigent short-sightedness, both of which stem from fear–a wholly mutable state of being. Then different color skins will just be sexy.

Hey let’s put on a show.

Comment on XX is back with a vengeance! by a

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:59:07 +0000

FYI Fringe starts on July 10th. Happy fringing!

http://www.capitalfringe.org/

Comment on Manifesto Numero Uno by JohnR

JohnR — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:51:36 +0000

—What utter propagandish bull squat! Barrack Obama is a big city politician who is adept at showing ONLY that portion of himself that he wants voters to see. He claims to be pro-hunters and yet his only hunting expedition of record was walking with some farmers in the field. His record speaks the truth though. On EVERY pro-gun vote that has come before him he has voted AGAINST. In every pro-self defense law that came before him he voted NO. He voted to make it illegal for a citizen to shoot an armed burglar in one’s own home while under attack as well as voting No to allowing that home owner to even own a gun.
— Obama says he is a man of the people yet he recently said of white people – ” it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Thus providing the world with a perfect example of both bigotry and hypocrisy in a single statement!
— The more we hear Obama speak the more we start to see his real flaws, and serious flaws at that. Yet he is proving masterful at appealing to our young people despite all these negatives. I had hoped Obama would turn out to be the Colin Powell who was too smart to accept the presidential position, but I already know now that Obama will never be, could never be a Colin Powell.
— As much as I don’t trust Hillary I have to say she looks like the better of the 3 current choices, but that isn’t saying much in my opinion. With Obama’s own comments and those of his closest advisors, such as his pastor, starting to come out I hope people will see him for what he really is. I will let you decide the answer to that for yourselves. I know what he is to me.
— Obama is one of 3 candidates and I find all 3 seriously wanting enough not to vote for any of them. Obama speaks badly of his fellow Americans – especially small town whites, follows a anti-American spewing psychopathic pastor, agrees in the UN policy to remove firearms from the hands of American Citizens and does not believe that you should be able to defend your children against armed intruders in your own home!
— And there is much more. At first blush I thought Obama was going to be a breath of fresh air but now that we are getting more and more views of the real Obama I am coming to realize that voting for him would be worse than the disease I hoped he could cure.

Comment on Hiatus Not-So-Maximus by KinkyKathy

KinkyKathy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:22:45 +0000

Ron Paul hates the Shakespeare Theater. He recently told MSNBC that Michael Kahn has “a hyperbolic view of executive power.” He prefers the populist streak running through the DC Fringe festival. And he doesn’t hate gays, either. Don’t believe the smear campaign from media elites. Vote for him. Canvass for him. Wait for him outside his office with laurels.

Comment on Debate Watch Party tonight! by Las Vegas Celebrity Impersonators

Las Vegas Celebrity Impersonators — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:59:22 +0000

Make sure to vote this coming election.