Ready to throw away your risk-averse political statements yet?
T-shirts coming soon.
I kept seeing the image of Che Guevara on posters and stickers, people seem to be using it more as a stylized counter-culture bullshit rather than as a political statement supporting the passion of guerrilla rebellion. Then I saw a picture of Che’s face replaced with an ape from Planet of the Apes, and struggled to understand what the hell it was trying to say. (FYI: “gorilla” fighter, omfglulz).
I’m tired of seeing impotent political art. Oh boy, President Bush as one of the Three Stooges? Good call, too bad it’s the artistic equivalent of calling someone a dumdum. Nowadays, political art and satire involves way too much intellectual analysis for what boils down to ill-conceived risk-averse ideas. The administration is “bad,” the war in Iraq is “bad,” this or that person is “dumb.” Are you god damn kidding me? Art is about engaging and challenging popular opinion, not spouting the second-most-popular opinion.
Essentially, American modern political art is dead, at the time when it should be the most vocal, crushed by a few years of overwhelming nationalist fervor in the states, and general apathy and idiocy among artists. Well, times are changing, and for those of you looking for ways to bring it back, here you go. More to come.
Whether you call them a terrorist organization or not, Al-Qaeda sees itself and will continue to see itself as a freedom fighting organization, fighting for the creation of a Nation of Islam against the democratic political machine of the United States, in which all citizens have power and are indirect political leaders, and therefore are open targets as key political figures in a battlefield. They believe the US has continually invaded the borders of the Nation of Islam and encroached upon its peace and sovereignty, tainting and disrespecting its sacredness, killing its leaders and innocents.
This is a new world.
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