Flash Back Manifesto

Flash-Back-Manifesto.

Politics is the art of what is possible- Art is the politics of what is impossible.

Flash- Back is a new European venture in the international art world for developing the creative democratic conscience.

With our basis in Augustiana we wish to develop and intensify an exchange co-operation with life artists in the EU who wish to work for the democratic free meeting in a time where fear has become the narrowminded incentive in all political decisions.

Augustiana will be the centre of this European co-operation where we artists will work with important themes for the development of an international co-existence with man in the centre- not only within the EU but for a global democratic EU in contrast to the present political EU

We see the EU as a historic innovation which contains a large humanistic-democratic potential, and Flash will help inspire this international new thinking, free of national smugness.

We want to change the EU from being a political project to being a creative developing democratic project, independent of frontiers, ethnic affiliations and religion. A human being is not something you are, but an empathic condition you must develop.

The Age of Enlightenment was the start of the European dominance of our planet. This has led to extreme colonial misery and suppressing exploitation, BUT also started the development of the empiric modern man´s view of democracy.

As Europeans we must take responsibility and not be cowed by errors of the past, but turn to the future, for this is where we can develop and grow.

We will not be ruled by bad conscience and in paralysed despair at our forefathers´ errors resign in guilt and bad conscience and lost look to heaven for forgiveness and salvation.

As human beings we will take responsibility.

We do not believe in the Fall of Man.This is a suppressive myth which paralyses man in a retrospective longing for the lost Paradise.

We were born into the whirlpool of our time and must develop as human beings who look ahead at the eyeheight of our own life.

There is no reward after life. The reward is in life where you can make a difference by your own lifework.

Man was not created by God. God was created by man. Therefore man can develop his potential and identity without being responsible to some creator beyond.

Life is sacred in its unique display of humanity. Therefore the meaning of life for each individual is to look ahead and generously pass on the baton of democracy for the development of the next generation.

Man is common creation and has in its social empathic insight and wisdom realized that democracy offers the best possibilities for each individual to expand freely under responsibility.

Life is here and now on earth. It is sacred and develops best when the individual takes responsibility for his own self expression in a continual democratic process.

Democracy is not a political idea, but an idea of man´s unique position in the world. (Expressed by the French sociologist Marcel Gauchet.)

With Augustiana as its home port Flash will send art- and culture ships to the European rivers to inspire and talk in the freethinking language of art about democracy´s creative developing idea for a global EU.

Jan Jensen.

Båring, Nov. 17 2010

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