Reply #38: Campbell, Fripp on Redemption and Gore...

[stlsaxman]

Damn i wish Joe were alive to nudge Al... Certainly Al knows Campbells work well.
Maybe, Campbell HAS nudged Al..




The following is as inspirational to me as "Assault On Reason" and is as close to my heart as any speech by Al Gore- hopefully we can all gain from this.

Robert Fripp on Redemption (excerpted)
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We have perhaps noticed that the world with which we are familiar is collapsing.

The abrogation of responsibility, by those in positions of power towards those who are dependent upon them, would seem to be a leitmotiv in our recent history: political, personal, professional and moral violation is endemic in contemporary culture.

The new world is struggling to be born whilst carrying passive repercussions of the past and facing active opposition from the old.

The future is in place, and waiting, but we have yet to discover it.

Our present position is the bridge between.

This position is hazardous because we are building the bridge while crossing it.

A reasonable person would despair, but hope is unreasonable and redemption an actual event.

Artists, musicians and poets deal in the unreasonable on a daily basis.

This is the living breath of our work and the invisible glue which holds together performers, audience and the song.

Redemption and repair, for those committed to serving the creative impulse, is an aspect of applied art and utterly practical.

Grace - readily available, simply experienced, beyond understanding - requires no reason to enter our lives but does need a vehicle.

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Something has gone terribly wrong.

Because of that, many things have gone terribly wrong.

This is all meaningless unless we experience the terror of being separated from the source which fuels the Creation, and the conviction that redemption is entirely real.

But the outcome is not guaranteed.

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Any choice we make to escape our debts, to dishonour our obligation, blocks the bridge over which we return to the whole.

This is a dis-integration.

The aim of meeting unmet obligations, and addressing obligations which have not been honoured, is that we may re-integrate with the whole: at - one - ment.

Re-integration is our gift within the act of redemption.

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When a Good Friend pays my debt, and releases me from the repercussions and weight of that debt, I am free to work and acquire something of my own.

When I have a little in the bank, perhaps I may pick up the tab for someone else.

In paying their debts, I settle my own.

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Copyright, Robert Fripp 1994
Text from "David Sylvian and Robert Fripp: Redemption - Approaching Silence" - sound installation.