tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post5812912719145971595..comments2023-10-22T12:21:47.291-04:00Comments on Geoffrey Philp: Where are we now?Geoffrey Philphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13442948340176713964noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-20225264857398352242007-11-06T04:52:00.000-05:002007-11-06T04:52:00.000-05:00Dear longbench,Welcome!I agree with you and accept...Dear longbench,<BR/><BR/>Welcome!<BR/><BR/>I agree with you and accept your proposals that the solutions must come from within the community, but someone must lead and organize.... and eventually rebirth the moribund institutions .<BR/><BR/>Change is never permanent until it is institutionalized and made relevant by suceeding geeenrations<BR/><BR/>Blessings,<BR/>GeoffreyGeoffrey Philphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13442948340176713964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19836501.post-479191821775153752007-11-05T18:39:00.000-05:002007-11-05T18:39:00.000-05:00You are right in many respects, but much of what y...You are right in many respects, but much of what you attribute as human qualities have been carefully (and sometimes spitefully) nurtured over the years. The recent furor over the textbook reference to gay and lesbian families, and particularly Esther Tyson's commentary in Sunday's paper should generate a serious debate, but it won't.<BR/><BR/>Just to hear someone claim that "majority" opinion should rule, if it had or has been so, it should always be so, gives me goosebumps. Our inability to think instead of reacting is what inhibits us in most realms. <BR/><BR/>I wholeheartedly agree that the arts and humanities are a real and workable solution to the generalized hatred of self and others that permeates everyday life in Ja. I don't agree that the methods you suggest are what will make a difference. Those seem to be aimed at making the careers of individual writers and artists. We have a lot of those; too many of those at the expense of other forms of creative expression. It is as if the only way to know and talk about the Caribbean is through literature and literary analysis. <BR/><BR/>I am talking about guerrilla theatre, public performances, community writing groups, grassroots arts projects, murals, sculpture, blacksmithing, etc.<BR/>Neither the Edna Manley School nor another Caribbean Writer's Award will make those transformations possible, because there is nothing in either of those institutional apparatuses that recognizes and celebrates the value of art in everyday life, or artists' becoming involved in social change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com