What Would Be the Sixth Way to Kill a Man?

Today we commemorate the terrorist attack. Tomorrow everything is forgotten, reports a news heading.

Art moves by in periods. After a certain period there will always appear a new one. What is important today, will be forgotten tomorrow. There is no such thing as the end of history, not in art. We have had our modernist period. But what is modern, you could ask? It is not the end, its just a stage and after modernism there will be something called post-modernism. Five ways to kill a man, a poem by Edwin Brock, ends in our pre-modernist times, in the twentieth century. And again you could ask, is that still modern? Does a poem ever cease to exist? And, does it end there?

There are culture pessimists who argue that modern culture is on its way down. That society is destroying itself. It is not a vacant area on the net. Searching for cultural optimism however, will show you only a handful of results, compared to cultural pessimism that is found abundantly on the internet.

Five ways to kill a man, opens in a religious context. But it also sets focus on a singular event, the killing of a single man. Today we remember what happened five years ago. And the event introduced a new age, not only in art. The question that remains is; what is this sixth way to kill a man? Is it something even more massive? Should we watch to see that he lives somewhere in the middle Of the [new century, and leave him there.

Or,

Do we go back and kill this single man, the personification of evil. Have we arrived where we have started?

Or is there another way out?

There must be. Lets find it.

Together.

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/txt/105.txt (Five ways to kill a Man)

Author:: Eric Kind
Keywords:: edwin brock
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