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[riotheclown]

This is Mierl Laderman Ukeles manifesto.

Art has no value
The human condition is not curable but maintainable.
The right drugs can make it possible
to cope with the side-effects.
Having been valued
on the basis of an ability to
generate more economic activity,
people in need are filling up all the waiting rooms everywhere.
They need a diagnosis, or a sentence.

The torturing of test subjects has become a cottage industry.
Stay at home moms in far away places
sell the results to pharmacuetical companies.
Sometimes
they get on television
or sell the rights to their stories to movie companies
generating more economic activity and making it possible for them
to buy the products that are advertised during the intermission
or along the side of computer screens
while people far away watch them
on You Tube.