“We have been sold a pup. The West Wing and similar political utopias have propagated the notion of the dignity of presidential office and of those who hold it. But It is hard to match this benevolent, patrician vision with our sordid reality”
“The presentation of politics has become pure entertainment; just another unhealthy consumable good and both candidates got chewed up and swallowed that night, which felt very appropriate and was more therapeutic than I would have imagined.”
“Already rife with distrust, crooked smiles, and manufactured cutout econo-kit fashions, these images betray their ultimate aim, which is to represent an ideology through a gesture of the candidate’s ¾ portrait.”
The more you protest and shovel meta-data back and forth from behind the screen, the more easily your physical self and right to action will be controlled. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, April 2015 We live in a tireless age in which we believe our right to protest earns us a neo-liberal badge of honor. […]