Theatre critic and poet Alison Croggon writes:
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is small beer besides the three-decade environmental catastrophe in Nigeria, where equivalent oil-spills occur every year.
Croggon asks:
Shall we continue fiddling as Rome burns? Or are we doing something else?
She continues:
I'm not stupid or vain enough to think art can save the world. But those who denigrate art are even more stupid than those who proclaim its vanities: it is imagination that has created our entire human reality.
The problem is that art's power exists only in its truthfulness, and truthfulness is not the lingua franca of power
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