Herb Glenn Bennett

There is a concept I thought I invented called "Cultural Economics."

My definition says, "that the expressions of people and their flavors create economies."

Not for the lawyers, nor bean counters, and the re-aligners or religions. They are the servants of the people and the ARTS. The war has been on for a long time. The economic battle front grows to include not just the free labor markets; slavery, global resources and rich ancient cultures with their true wisdom and knowledge, but the artists also who have transcended all the crap to stay on course doing the work we always have done.

The traditional definition of economics, at the core of its being, is the study of the lack of resources. If one were to build a nation and had no resources of their own, they would not be fair and offer reasonable exchange for what they needed. This is where the war machines and police power come into play. Plunder pillage, rape and persecution will be the methods of choice used to build the economies of the oppressive nations. To add insult to plunder and pillage, the "developed nations" would then sell the goods made from the stolen resources back to the folks they took it from in the first place. What a rip!

Have you ever thought of what the true value of all the art-related fields with their products, services and talented workers could amount to if we used a (AIG) bean counter to do the valuation?  It would be a significant contribution to the GNP and GDP and all the other P's known. Isn't it funny how this is not a part of the current conversation? The shit that's getting cooked up again is clear. No one sees it. It is as big as a F- train coming right to us at full speed.

There is no one else to steal from. Stealing from self is the new economic strategy. For if as the classic definition of economics tells us, it is the study of the lack of resources and the holiest one of all is the all mighty paper dollar, now backed by crap and promises to pay back what’s left to future generations, is very lacking, then we, my friend, are on the painful end of a long pole with no end in sight. Ouch!

My invention, I discovered, has been used but with an entirely traditional definition of what we are told art means by UNESCO, many other academic societies with their fancy journals dealing with cultural diversity, and many more of their 'divide and conquer' bull that in any ANAL-ysis has nothing to do with humanity, human development, nor art.

An arts or Cultural Economic revolution is in order. Imagine we awake one day to find that our mental circuitry is rewired. The way we thought changed. A new paradigm was implemented by the few who knew in advance that this was coming. That to me is what the Mayan calendar and all other reckonings of the new cosmological order have in store for us after 2012. The wiring had to change for the new frequency to come into being with all that it brings for the evolution of humans.

Rant Herb

How I can get you to admit how smart you are. Please follow along with pen and paper.

(Look at the word rant. Put ignore in from of it and drop the 'e'. What do you see now? No you are not!)

Herb Bennett is an artist, architect, poet, inventor, educator and 'cultural development activist' working and living in New York. He is originally from Trinidad and is one of the founders of ARTCURIAN.