Steve Weiner, computer specialist and Aesthetic Realism associate, writes:

This thrilling issue of The Right Of is up to the moment, and also about the fight within people through the centuries. It explains why a song, very popular right now, has taken America so much. And this issue is, too, about the importance of a classic play for understanding what in ourselves impedes our lives, what in us keeps us from being the people we truly want to be. So kind and deep in its comprehension of you and humanity is “An Elizabethan Play & America Now,” the current number of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known!

The commentary by Ellen Reiss begins:

Dear Unknown Friends:

We conclude here our serialization of the 1970 lecture How Effective Are We?, by Eli Siegel. This talk, so important for nations, for literature, and for the understanding of the present economy, is also about the most personal and crucial thing in everyone’s life. Is there something in us, in ourselves, that hinders our being effective—that makes us unable to do what we most deeply want?

Certainly, things not ourselves can hinder us. And a massive one is economics. People have been stopped from being all they could be because of the way wealth has been had and not had in the world—and often this being hindered is devastating.

Take a child, just born in an American hospital. She, Jasmyn, will soon be brought home by parents who are very worried because they can’t pay the rent for their apartment. That apartment, which Jasmyn will see with her young eyes, has peeling paint, little in the refrigerator, and rats. It has, too, sounds that will come to her ears—including sounds of anger and weeping from her parents because they cannot get the money that they’ve needed and now need more than ever—after all, isn’t there now a child, that little one there in the corner, who’ll need food and clothing?…Read more