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"When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the White People, they do not feel oppressed--they feel powerless...We [Indians] see the physical genocide that they are attempting to inflict upon us, and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people"--John Trudell

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."--George Bernard Shaw

Imagine  living  in  a  world
where people 
      began to realize 
                   the VALUE 
                 of deep, on-going efforts 
to get along 
and understand each other 
          BEYOND perpetual war (at home and abroad).

Imagine a kind of society which encourages and rewards people for their *ability* to openly dissent AS WELL AS empathize with others! All towards an inclusive idea of
*mutually beneficial outcomes*.

If you can still allow yourself to imagine such a world, or something like this, then you may have the kind of excellent indomitable spirit that i'm seeking to enhance and promote and put into motion, via a way of doing things that i call the Crucial Arts.
The Crucial Arts is a way of doing things deeply rather than superficially, or in the case of social issues, seeking root or heart change rather than mere reform. The Crucial Arts is a vision for being, thinking, and doing in ways that not only utilize known ways as tools, but as well yet not-known ways. The bottom line being a need for the unique arting input of a multiversity of creativity, especially yours! Your arting style of desiring to not merely survive but also THRIVE--in order to make visions and community that perpetually include (rather than exclude or dominate) towards meaningful depth, or going to the heart of matters.
The pages herein are meant to stir up your independent-minded creativity and visionary desire with in-the-heart visions, art, spoken word, ideas, and analysis which you won't usually find easily. See our links section, especially, for both internal and external resources of arming your desires.

See a crucially informative FLYER that you can pass around!
Some examples of crucial topics included here (or coming soon):

On critical thinking on broad terms: "connecting the dots" between micro-oriented foreign and domestic single issues towards macro understanding.

Short critique and solutions pages (includes a key list of sources used in my study)

Debate/discussion between anti-authoritarians

Visionary idea: a listing and introduction to crucial artists and their Crucial Art styles. (What style would you make for your favorite institutional analyst?)

Demystifying the socialization of kids pages: Assumptions of Human Nature revisited; rebel without a cause; and rare information on a key youth liberation group of yesteryear

"It has been one of the main tools of civilization, to attack the spirit of the people...to persecute and hunt, and have their search and destroy missions against thought...[but we can] deactivate the external predator--[the] external programming being put inside of us--through our perception of it, as it lives in the mind-set."--John Trudell in Stickman

crucial issues (links.html) includes excerpts from:

Jacques Ellul on Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, Aldous Huxley from Brave New World--Revisited (rare), Noam Chomsky's **full Media Control speech, an index of writings and talks by John Trudell, Lev Chernyi on 'desire and guilt in mass movements', a re-write of one of Venomous Butterfly's articles on "Neither Intellectualism Nor Stupidity", and many more!

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."--Margaret Mead**