Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Give the artists some room
Mickey...Thanks for the link to your piece on Pearl Harbor. What a great article!!! That’s what should be in high school textbooks...also, Tom Brokaw should have a copy.
rosemariePosted by rosemarie jackowski on from 12/07 at 08:30 PMThanks, R...maybe that why Brokaw called it quits, huh?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 12/07 at 08:55 PMThere are many different things coming to head, Mickey. The Republican faction leaders are using the economy as a weapon more than any government has in quite some time. They’ve written off the party base in states that don’t vote for them and are even attacking the normal take of the elite in those areas. They’ve got control fever and are focusing, on what would be in business, slash burn attempts to hold market share. The same model was used as “shock therapy” in Eastern Europe.
Every time they cry wolf with the fake terror alerts, they diminish the effectiveness of that tool to whip up hysteria. They’re going to be forced to allow or arrange another attack at some point. People tend to tune out noise incrementally.
Because of the media and information saturation here, an activist message has to be sexy, funny and smart. I understand a bit better now why people are so disappointed by Michael Moore’s latest film. It could have been a tremendous message victory.
Where I think the hidden thinkers are lurking is in the so-called lunatic fringe. On the web, it’s Discordians and SubGenii. They’re mostly anarchic in organization and they’ve made nodes of it work here and there. In the cities, it’s evolving out of the flash mobs—the raid on the grocvery store in Italy is a good example. All of these are effectivel leaderless movements that stay close to the humanitarian message of real social evolution. It’s becoming coll to be a good guy. That’s the emergent quality.
Posted by harry on from 12/08 at 12:23 AMGuy Debord said: “Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.”
Maybe some of them are re-thinking that decision?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 12/08 at 05:23 AMMany middle aged types are. I certainly am. One of the hardest things I’ve had to do is work through is beliefs like this: We can’t sit back and allow bad guys to thrive. Sometimes we must commit violent acts to stop other, more violent acts from taking place. There was a point when I could have given Cotton Mather some serious competition in ferreting out the evil in people around me.
Posted by harry on from 12/08 at 12:31 PM
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