Playlist for Show: Long Waves

This show addressed the American ideal of creating a tabula rasa upon which a new world could be built. Lewis Mumford’s writings highlight the ways in which this dream contained a trap that prevented the American individual from seeing his past mistakes, living with them and so becoming morally conscious of his own history. The dreams, or more rightly, the fantasies of what the country could be still is defended, often with great vigor, but no substantive action is taken to realize these dreams. The exist as fata morgana.

Being thus unable to perceive out own failings and shortcomings, we project them upon the world as our shadow, finding our own evil in the faces of others. Further, no one can be responsible for anything. There are no consequences for evil of which one is unconscious. Henry Giroux’s ideas from the Violence of Organized Forgetting regarding the unconscious violence of neo-liberalism drives the US toward ever increasing violence which can only be stopped by an organized remembering and bringing into consciousness our own past and our own wrongs.

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