The End of an Era
By Michael Moriarty
Arthur Miller's death signals the end of an era during which the ingratitude of American artists to the United States flowered, virulently. His classic, Death of a Salesman, is a profoundly pessimistic vision of the American bourgeoisie, a cunning indictment of the American Dream – something that did not escape the revolutionary fervor of the leftist critics in New York who gave it raves. Down the years, Death of a Salesman became the great agit-prop classic of American Communism.
His generational fellow artist, Aaron Copland – a devotee of French communism, try as he might – was obliged in his examination of American folk songs to reveal the divine beauty in the American soul. Copland likened his whole musical output to a Fanfare to the Common Man, but as his exploration of the grassroots of American identity in works such as Appalachian Spring, Rodeo and Lincoln Portrait, it is obvious that there is nothing "common" about America.
The "commonists," as Southern politicians like to pronounce the name of the Stalinists, Maoists, Castroists and socialists, with all their adoration of thought, their diabolical belief that Descartes was right when he said, "I think therefore I am." Therefore they can't believe they are alive until their thoughts make them aware they are alive (the basic pro-choice defense of trimester division to gestation). This set the course for Arthur Miller, Aaron Copland, Lee Strasberg and his legion of offspring, and now directs the course of former President William Jefferson Clinton who is determined to be Secretary General of the New World Order of the United Nations.
Americans say, "I am therefore I am!"
Reality, life or, if you will, God is going to smash this delusional house of Napoleonic cards into the ground. He and Mother Earth, His Wife, are in no hurry about doing it. Justice is best served up and meted out slowly.
Miller, later in his life, directed a production of Death of a Salesman in the capital of his communist dreams, Beijing. With Tiananmen Square and full-term abortions ordered by the State, I think he was ultimately as lost as his former wife, Marilyn Monroe. He likened her to a street performer whose audience simply wanted to pull at her skirts. Miller did more than that. According to Joyce Carol Oates, he got Monroe pregnant. She fell down a flight of stairs and lost the baby.
Well, the baby of Communism has come full-term now with its ownership of 95% of the human race under socialist federations. The U.S. election of 2008 will be its Napoleonic Waterloo. The American soul is not only divinely beautiful, as evinced by Comrade Copland's tribute to her folksongs, but divinely powerful. With Mother Earth and Our Father in Heaven on the side of the U.S., who can prevail against the Declaration of Independence?
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