Retrospective Diagnosis (protest song)

anti-psychiatry, human rights, Music, romesh senewiratne-alagaratnam, Uncategorized, urban poetry 1 Minute

I ask as I read

Your diagnoses of the dead

Of the madness of artists

And the ravings of poets –

Do you consider what’s said?

Do you think ANY poet sane?

How can you understand such a brain

When you treat metaphor with disdain?

 

I ask as I read

When you speak of Van Gogh

Diagnoses are made

And his brilliance fades –

Viewed as a freak

Diseased imagination

That glorified sunflowers

And saw beauty in the mundane

 

I ask as I read

The criteria you make

To call artists mad

Synonymous with bad

Prejudiced rules

Constructed by fools

With stupid textbooks

Created by crooks

With hidden agendas

Arrogant and friendless

 

Do you consider any poet “chemically balanced”?

Do you consider any artist “appropriately behaved”?

Or are poetry and art the very diseases

That you would rid the human race of?

The human race, tired of running

Round in circles

Driven ever faster, the human race

Sick of competing and climbing the ladder

Deeper into the sewer Of greedy profiteering

Relentless careering

Artists exploited, poets tortured

The victims cry out, but fear to be clear

They speak in metaphor

To hide their horror

They have seen the world as poets

As sensitive people

Not “schizophrenics”.

 

(words and music by Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam Arya Chakravarti, 1999)

Guitars, bass and vocals by Romesh)

 

Published by Dr. Rom Chakravarti

I am the Founder and CEO of Golden Ant Enterprises (GAE). GAE enterprises include the Holistic University Network (HUN) which was the world's first network of virtual universities. These universities are non-competitive and do not award degrees or diplomas. The flagship university of the HUN is the Holistic University of Brisbane (HUB) which has several Facebook pages, including the HUB Art Gallery, HUB Forensics, HUB Legal Department, HUB Science, HUB Neuroscience, HUB Biology, HUB Psychology, HUB History, HUB Music, HUB Publications and HUB Health. GAE also includes: 1. The Global Knowledge Network (GKN) including the Holistic Education Network (HEN), Gondwana Free Education (GFE) and Wise Owl Learning (WOL) which also have Facebook pages. 2. GAE Data: https://GAE.data 3. Dr. Rom's Bird Sanctuary: https://www.facebook.com/DRBirdSanctuary 4. Gondwana Mining Corporation (GMC) 5. Global Solar Grid (GSG) 6. Global Power Grid (GPG) Other GAE ventures include the Gondwana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), GondTech, HUB Engineering, HUB Banks, Purple Dolphin Technologies (PDT), Cosmopolitan Green Ecology (CGE), Cosmopolitan Green Architecture (CGA), Cosmopolitan Music Theory (CMT), ZAGUR Communications, Biometric Data Analysis (BDA) and Solar Direct Light Technology (SDLT). These too have Facebook pages which you are invited to visit.

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