International Arts Movement on OWS

A Letter to the OWS Movement from International Arts Movement founder MAKOTO FUJIMURA

....you are a true movement, OWS, fragile and full of unanswered questions; I want to encourage and implore you to stay fragile and full of unanswered questions. 

In your cries against corporate greed and broken governmental systems, your longing for agrarian ethics and your desire to honor the environment, I hear an echo from a writer I have long admired, Wendell Berry.  There's much to be learned from this prophet of land ethics and agrarian vision. Here's a quote from his book The Art of the Common Place:

We can understand a great deal of our history - from Cortes' destruction of Tenochtitlan in 1521 to the bulldozer attack on the coalfields four-and-a-half centuries later - by thinking of ourselves as divided into conquerors and victims.  In order to understand our own time and predicament and the work that is to be done, we would do well to shift the terms and say that we are divided between exploitation and nurture.

http://www.makotofujimura.com/writings/a-letter-to-ows/