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About the Author
John Steppling is an original founding member of the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, a two-time NEA recipient, Rockefeller Fellow in theatre, and PEN-West winner for playwriting. Plays produced in LA, NYC, SF, Louisville, and at universities across the US, as well in Warsaw, Lodz, Paris, London and Krakow. Taught screenwriting and curated the cinematheque for five years at the Polish National Film School in Lodz, Poland. A collection of plays, Sea of Cortez & Other Plays was published in 1999, and his book on aesthetics, Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-Interest was published this year by Mimesis International.
I read a meme on social media yesterday that described Trump as having disgraced the office of the President. This is from a liberal and a Democrat. Honestly I’m not sure what one would have to do to disgrace that office. Harry Truman ordered the destruction of two Japanese cities with Atomic bombs, the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians, women, children, the elderly…everyone. Disgrace the office? The School of the Americas, now rebranded, taught torture and subjugation to several generations of right wing dictators, and helped train death squads throughout Latin America.
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A common mistake people make about the USA is that it is totally different from the settler days; the pioneering Europeans who came to conquer territory and the religious refugees from an oppressive Europe. Nothing much has changed except the rest of the world. But the USA continues the original program of settling new and so-called unoccupied lands. Unoccupied that is by a submissive populace admiring USA’s culture and its technological prowess (that BTW destroys nature). Anything contrary to this imperialist view and it will be for an indigenous population that resists, ‘delendam est’ (vide Syria). There is nothing new… Read more »
Errata: I meant to write Proudhon (the political philosopher) but my profession betrayed itself in me writing Prud’hon, the artist.