We need utilities.
Air, water, energy
Travel and communication means
Food and shelter.
We have no need for imaginary mountain ranges
Between separate nations.
We can make tunnels through the real ones.
Nor do we have any need for the continuing division of people
Into those who have what they need
And those who don't.
Both Fuller and Marshal McLuhan
Knew, furthermore
That work is now obsolete.
We have invented machines to do it for us.
Now that we have no need to do anything
What shall we do?
Looking at Fuller's geodesic world map
We see that the Earth is a single island, Oahu.
We must give all the people all they need to live
In any way they wish.
Our present laws protect the rich from the poor.
If there are to be laws, we need ones that
Begin with the acceptance of poverty as a way of life.
We must make the world safe for poverty Without dependence on government."
- John Cage
1 comment:
thanks for the poem....
in order to maintain in citizenship, one is easily to ignore something more precious or to voice out for justice and love.....
like ww said... this land we are creating is somehow based on a virtual "utopia"....
i'm looking forward to how the audience will respond to it....
john cage's poem definately bring us down to earth to look into what we're having now.:)
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