A Non-Valentine Message

By Jim Costanzo of the Aaron Burr Society and Noah Fischer

Aristotle understood that money is a form of social exchange. Joseph Beuys called this process social sculpture and proclaimed that all people are creative in the way that they live their lives. Art is an intensified form of social exchange, more specific and at times poetic. But intensity is not limited to artists and should not be separated from daily activities. Creativity is our Commons, Art is our Commons. Limiting creativity is limiting social exchange. It is a form of oppression; the slavery of the 99% imposed by the 1%.

This was a synthesis of my performance for Greg opening at the forum, transcribed below.

 

Gold & Silver is not money! Aristotle understood that money is a social exchange

the quality of mercy

  is not strained

it falls like a gentle rain

   from above

and is twice blessed

   once by those who give

and again by those who receive.

  BUT we do not ask for mercy

from Wall Street

   we do not ask for mercy

from the International Monetary Fund

  We demand Justice

for the crimes of fraudulent debt

   look to Iceland

where the revolution has started

   the people of Iceland refused

to pay their debt

  instead they arrest bankers

be enlightened google Iceland

Art is not a mirror

   to hold up to the world

Art is a hammer

   to shape the world

                Bertolt Brecht

The Aaron Burr Society calls

   on the spirit of the Illuminati

Ben Franklin, Voltaire, Rousseau

     the spirit of the Enlightenment

 the spirit of the American & French Revolutions

     liberty, equality, fraternity

the first revolution for

     Universal Human Rights

Now in the 21st Century we call

    for a  Renaissance of the Enlightenment

Occupy Economic justice, Occupy Social Justice,

      Occupy Sustainability Environmental

our planet in balance, our world harmony

      the spirit of all things universally

all people equally