The Promised Land Project: New York Times Editorial

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.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

New York Times Editorial

From New York Times columnist David Brooks, here's a link to a sobering editorial about the state of our country. But as Brooks asserts, other forces are at work to get our country back on track. What I've tried to do as a writer and a poet, is 'translate' Whitman's vision out of its time and place in the nineteenth century, bring it through the horrors of the twentieth century, and provide it in the twenty-first century to enable the hope and faith in both our human nature and our democratic society.