The Promised Land Project: Where I'm Going With All of This/The Importance of Cultural Diversity

Turning Vision into Action....at least hypothetically

Strike up the music of the band
We're blazing a trail for the promised land
Heaven on earth is within you.

Through the writing of stories, poetry, essays, and a novel, I’ve creatively contended with the consumer culture and the problem of the ideal in the modern era. This preoccupation in time would lead to a vision of cultural transformation and where I believe our democratic society needs to go to truly progress beyond the modern era. Conceding my limited credibility, this blog provides a synthesis of recognized visionaries, poets, and writers with the objective of making a credible argument. Ultimately, it is a certain feeling the project strives to inspire and sustain on a certain level, making more vital use of poetry and the arts; consequently whether one agrees or not is less important than whether one senses it and feels it over time.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Where I'm Going With All of This/The Importance of Cultural Diversity

To give a preview of where I'm going with all of this, after I've established the project's roots in poetry, we'll then be moving into the realm of the prophets. There we'll try to bring Jesus down to earth, so to speak, in the more grounded sense as a poet. Those believers who're more comfortable with Jesus amongst the clouds as a prophet, the messiah, the Christ, are going to have to have faith. For nonbelievers, I expect they'll find there's plenty of room for them as well as I continue to talk poetry and the use of symbol and metaphor in relation to the dynamics of human nature.

Before that, however, I'll have to underscore my sincere belief in the importance of cultural diversity. Much like the benefits of biological diversity, whatever challenges that present themselves in the course of human history, it's to our benefit to draw on the vast pool of human experience to help meet these challenges. In this blog, I'll be citing some aspects of the Native American culture, for example, that I believe will help enable us to be more Christlike.

By establishing the project in poetry and making creative use of both deductive and inductive reasoning, I believe we can successfully engage these issues cross-culturally and among believers and nonbelievers alike. But where I think this is going is the creation of what nonbelievers might call a conceptual metaphor in which to engage the world. But the last word I'll leave is taken from the Roman Catholic theologian and Dominican priest Gustavo Gutierrez, who is considered the father of liberation theology. Speaking on the University of Oregon campus, in 2005 I believe, he remarked that to him, the language of God is poetry.