NARCISSUS GUIDE

The Politics of Poetry

VI The Politics of Poetry Consider all the political sins of Nazism and Neocolonialism: the most abhorrent crimes against humanity through the 20th century which condemned billions of people to poverty, slavery and death. Neither our genes nor the arts could forget and forgive such horror!. Hopefully and dreamfully our human consciousness has moved towards a new realm to reach the Eternal Utopia, for Peace and Justice...utopia where bread, milk and honey will be provided for all...!?... However, Evil is still the most shameful of human miseries. Mankind would overcome its Carnivalesque bloodshed if in the name of our love for Beauty we recover our own Humanism!. As the canadian writer John R. Saul* has said: "No period of peace has ever supported the levels of arms spending that we have experienced over the last thirty years "...because " We are now caught in the midst of great economic and moral confusion",,, Therefore the maladies of Ideological Dogmatism and Political Bigotry still resemble the dangers of our own incredible capability for madness. But again if all these remain on Earth: Nature, cities and artwork, people and our passion for Knowledge: Nature, Culture and Civilization!, remind us that love, truth and beauty will prevail!. Somehow it seems that at the End of the darkest of Humanity there is Humanity.... and perhaps above all, the best of our inventions are ourselves!. *John R. Saul. " Voltaire's Bastards ". 1992. Penguin Group. U.S.A. Pages 156 and 166.