Hagan, Bob

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I grew up during the cold war, studied political science, and interviewed with the National Security Agency. The interviewer asked about my hobbies and when I replied, "art," he suggested I go back to school to "get it out of my system".

The NSA made me I realize that art was powerful and potentially "subversive". Went to art school, but worked as a systems oriented family therapist. I learned that what people just "knew to be true" was often problematic, and that relabeling “truths” could open new choices. My art looks at systems across the natural and cultural world. In culture I examine "memes," encoded transmissible ideas of what MUST be true and false, and try to reframe them in ways similar to what I did in my therapy work. Worked there, but now there’s the web and endless “Alternate” realities.

MY TRUTH; all else is HOAX… and the biggest,“King Trump”. Trump gone? Evolution in Action, I hope.

(but look at the work: This started with our hallowed Founders. Were they hypocrites proclaiming the Rights of Man, but excluding women and slaves? The first version of Inequitable and Corn was during Vietnam. (Jesus rules! The Times Square images are from the 2000’s. Candy coated police state. Carrying a cell phone? But; don’t do anything subversive. on-line. And ask my brown skinned sons how many times they were told to get out of “librul” Park Slope. Trump is just the end state.

Do I hate America? The Founders had the right idea, and they had some successes. But even without a Trump roll-back to racsim, classism and ontogeny , we have along way to go.