roundtable: Re: Dole, Industry Deviancy and Cyberspace

roundtable: Re: Dole, Industry Deviancy and Cyberspace

Re: Dole, Industry Deviancy and Cyberspace

Jeff Briggs (jbriggs@capital.edu)
Sat, 10 Jun 1995 03:20:40 +0500 

Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 03:20:40 +0500
From: jbriggs@capital.edu (Jeff Briggs)
Message-Id: <9506100720.AA21090@athena.capital.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Dole, Industry Deviancy and Cyberspace


Bob Dole is a nightmarish deviant, and no matter now capitalistically 
violent Hollywood and commercial Tv are, he is a greater danger to our 
democracy, and a greater barrier to achieving it. Of course there are 
legions of his hypocritical moralistic ilk eager to take his place 
should he falter. He's just trying to score a few cheap points. The 
"True Lies" that he apparently approved of is just as sadistic and 
cold-heartedly violent as the unending parade of commercial product 
numbing the few brains that can still synapse.

      "Natural Born Killers", by the way, was a brilliant denunciation
of Hollywood and American violence - but of course Dole (who never saw
it) got it just as wrong as the truly depraved Jesse Helms when he went
after Andres Serrano for his "Piss Christ", which was  denunciation of
the commercialization and cheapening of religion.

      Of course the violence of American media is a projection from
the unquiet, fear-driven, never-satisfied unconscious of American
capitalism - with its alienation, lack of real feeling, and cluelessness
about what a human being really is. Carl Jung would have a field day.

     The antidote to all this hopeless dreck ( the media and the 
politicians) is art, creativity, education, and a real multiculturalism
on our mass media - but only a revolution could bring this about, and
the chances of it maintaining these values in any meaningful way tax
the imagination.

Jeff Briggs
<jbriggs@capital.edu>

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