The Liberal Arts

While the election of Barack Obama to the United States Presidency quite probably will invigorate the arts movement, his election cannot replace what has been lost in the last eight years of darkness. The traditional educational movement of the liberal arts have been swept under the rug and with it has gone its power to move the American people. Was this a conscious attempt to neuter the most powerful force in the arts? Was the Bush Administration, like the Nazi party, afraid of American jazz music? Did his ruling faction, like the Communist party, attempt to nationalize the media for their own personal empowerment? The answer is yes, and it like Bush’s election win in Florida, was accomplished with Republican grace. His win in Florida, although deceitful, still may be the best model of the Republican National Party. While this party squirms in disarray after a staggering defeat by the Democrats, how could it be so easy to lose their political prospectus? It is because like America, the party has changed for the worse. What once was a savvy, stealth, and slick business suit now is an arrogant, ignorant, Texas redneck. You can’t teach manners to cowhands. You can’t preach jazz at country music fans. What has to happen is this majority in media, like the government, must be replaced with more educated, enlightened, and liberal thinkers. For America actually to move forward new blood must be transfused into the system of America, if not voluntarily then by force. The power of moving people’s minds and feelings by media must be restored for this country to progress. The empty shell of political conservatism, the blank void of atheism and agnosticism, and the absence of passion from the American’s people’s lives through religion are over. Let humanity revive and with it the clear and present path of economic recovery. No longer can America live like slave androids, afraid for their own existences. Instead let the passions of their minds and loins invigorate what used to be a great Capitalist nation.