What is killing America and How will it survive?

The multimedia piece a Season in Hell, brings up a lot of things to question about the political atmosphere of America. The piece in my opinion builds off of Dr. Martin Luther King's ideas that silent witnesses were to blame for the tragedies during the Holocust and the Civil Rights Movement, moreso than the ones who were actually the aggressors in both situations. The term silent witness means a person who watches these events happening but does nothing to change it.
I think that the piece a Season in Hell touches on this thought. Post 9/11 the American public and myself have been fed these images of what this almost " Brave New World," lifestyle is supposed to be like. We allowed ourselves to be disillusioned enough to give the President power to start a war that we will be paying for in the lives of our children yet to come. The piece argues that it was through the assistance of the media that we were conditioned to let things continue with the government as they were. It is in that release of power that we have slowly killed the foundation that America was based from.
Artist Randall Packer and his collaboraters create this entity through art that sort of says " I will no longer be a silent witness,". The character Orf reminds us and forces us to remember that we can not be held down, that we should not be held down, that it is our duty to keep our eyes open and to call to question those in power for the mistakes that they are making.
The piece even goes a step further in its foundation, the reasoning why it was created to say to Artists in general that this is a call to them to stand up and give America its life again. The role of the artist is to create a mirror of the times in which we live, to interrprut that in their best ideas. However, what we find is that this political media, this political art is being created by the same institution that is destroying America. When the other artists begin to take a stand poltiically it will slowly give America back her heart. I think that the piece was/is very powerful, it brings up so many questions as to what and who is behind this image of our country. Who is in control of the images we see? And who should be in control of the images we see? I think that the biggest thing that this piece does is give us the opportunity to really think, to open our eyes to the realities of the world and to really say " I am not going to forget."