The Darker Forces
The darker forces are emerging in the USA as we speak, attempts to curtail voting rights, guns in Congress. In the UK we are being told that we have enough vaccine thanks to Brexit. Yet hundreds of companies are moving to Europe!
Love as a political virtue
When I watched the video of the song Make America Love Again, based on a Spike Lee comment, it set me thinking. Can a nation experience love? Love is usually considered a personal thing –intimate, invisible, subjective. It is felt by one person for another person or for an animal or object. People love – but countries? It is difficult to imagine them having emotions and moons, except in some highly metaphorical sense. Was the song meaningless, I wondered? Well meant but not much help? I have a literal mind and I couldn’t help pursuing this: what would it mean for a country to love? I am going to rephrase this question to make it specific. What the title implies, I think, is that love can be a political as well as a personal virtue.
– Nick Inman
What is Happening in America?
Am I watching a Bunuel film? Is this a scene from Fellini or the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. I can’t quite believe what is happening..it has been going on for some time but 6.1.21 is a date that will be forever etched in my mind, my consciousness and every cell in my body. So now I reflect on my project “Make America Love Again” – am I dreaming this up? Did America ever really love? – a nation founded on slavery and exploitation. This is the question and the message of my song and this project.