Brian Gerrish in his video talks about Common Purpose, refers to the sinister Government policy of promoting “Ugly Art” and disturbing logos to the public. See - Recently Visited Websites on this blog. This promotion of the ugly is happening in all other aspects of the Media too - TV, theatre, film, print etc. It appears to be a world-wide practice – well the western world at least!
The British Government heavily influences Art by the use of grants and funding, using public and lottery money, through think tanks, Arts Councils, seminars, committees etc. www.variant.randomstate.org/13texts/William_Clark.html
Are you aware of the latest ugly “Art Sensation,” in America, possibly the most ugly so far, worse even than dirty duvets, giant pickled herrings and dried corpses. You know what I mean!
Abortion as Art! The Angry Cheese kids you not!
www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-trail/2008/04/18/yale-student-turns-maybe-abortions-into-art-project.html
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08041813.html
I suppose we should feel sympathy for this young woman because in 20, 30 or 40 years time she may well find herself feeling wretched and depressed over this misguided experiment. How can she ever recover from this?
Getting back to Common Purpose, certainly not from choice but because we really must get our heads around it :-
Common Purpose is a manifestation of Communitarianism. See:- http://nord.twu.net/acl/index.html for a brave and comprehensive attempt at a down-to-earth analysis. This is a world wide movement/problem and we all need to be aware of what is going on not just at home but abroad as well.
Cheesey has been investigating this a little and in
This is when The Third Way evolved and New Labour was invented. As we are unfortunately only too well aware, we now have three aspects of public life in
But for many years now we have had a third sector, the ubiquitous “Community Sector!” This is The Third Way.
http://www.whb.co.uk/socialissues/vol2gc.htm
www.londoncivicforum.org.uk/news.asp?sid=7&id=317 Scroll to bottom and click on “…Government White Paper by Henry Tam DCLG.”
Who is Henry Tam? Here he is talking about how community groups can take over ownership and/or control of Community Assets here in the
Google search: Civil Renewal and Diversity, Henry Tam. Also -
www.tilburguniversity.nl/globus/people/fellows/tam.html
He and others of his ilk have clearly been inspired by the ethos of Israeli-American sociologist Amitai Etzioni. www.quebecoislibre.org/010901-13.htm
Concerns are also being raised in
www.breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1665
www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy74.htm
www.renewamerica.us/columns/hank/080101
www.newswithviews.com/Raapana/niki.htm
www.sovereignty.net/p/gov/stevenyates-1.html
Here is their UK trade mag.
http://thirdsector.co.uk/AboutUs
www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk A charity that, among other things, teaches young people how to set up charities!
www.infed.org/biblio/communitarianism.htm
In
Change Agents in the
www.myacpa.org/task-force/sustainability/docs/Change_Agent_Skills_and_Resources.pdf
Leaders in the
www.thirdsectorleadership.org.uk/DisplayPage.asp?pageid=11536
A tentacle in
www.workingcommunities.com.au/pdfs/Beyond%20the%20green%20corporation.pdf
It will all end in tears!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF59nPVCUsw