MY LITERARY MOVEMENT: FUSIONISTIC EXPANSIONISM

Here, I'm going to suggest a loose artistic and literary movement, which may be known as "Fusionistic Expansionism." However, I'm not going to write a true manifesto. Rather, I ask interested writers to read a random sampling of my extensive writings. Example is better than "dogma." And I won't need to wait for other writers and artists to "join my movement." Many will already belong, whether or not I know their works or they know mine, and whether or not they ever learn of this movement.

FUSIONISTIC EXPANSIONISM

"The fusional expanionist non-manifesto:" Ideas are the heart of literature. One somewhat talented poet once made a monstrously misguided statement that poetry should be "not ideas about the thing but the thing itself." This is completely false not just of poetry but of literature and all the higher arts... with the sometimes exception of the non-film visual arts. True ideas are the heart and soul of all the best novels, plays, poems, movies, essays, and all other mediums in which carefully chosen words are essential. Much of the time, true ideas are even the heart and soul of forms like painting, sculpture, and music.
It is true and sound ideas that bring a story to life, that make literature important to the practical man of business or the factory worker at leisure. As a poet, I go to great lengths to find just the right sounds, punctuation, and line-breaks that will make for a compelling poem. But unless my poem expresses a true idea of some importance, it is 2nd rate; If it expresses no true idea at all, 3rd rate. The same goes for all forms of writing.
But where do we get our true ideas and how do we know they're true? I'm not going to fully answer this complicated question. I will say perhaps the most important and under-rated way is the study of ancient writings, especially those admired by many for hundreds and thousands of years. The mere ancient age of a piece of literature greatly increases the chance that it has something to teach the modern thinker and writer.
Finally, since it's ideas that truly matter in literature(and I firmly include film in literature,) we must not let barriers of form or genre keep us from expressing them. We should fuse genres: telling stories in poems, throwing long poems into movies and novels, and basically contorting technique, form, and convention to drive the idea home. But ideas are mostly very old: almost all of the most important ideas have been around for thousands and thousands of years. We should be slow to embrace new ideas that are believed at the moment, and look to older voices.
But regarding technique and form, we should feel free to experiment and adapt to our globalistic, ultra-modern world. We can freely change and re-invent these things because they are not the heart of literature or art.
I hope I've made some small sense here. And it's okay if you choose to use "Fusionistic Expansionism" as a term to describe the artistic principles laid out here, and more importantly those to be found in my own writing and art(which is widely available in book form and also for free across the internet.) You can also use the term to describe other writings, art, ideas, and statements that you feel are similar.