Please read this post by Gateway Pundit. It contains a first hand account of leftist protests of Catholic Pilgrims to World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain. This fits in with my earlier piece, The World, the World, The World is on Fire which details the numerous protests taking place in other world capitals.
This work of art falls neatly into what I call the Politics of Performance.
All performance has some kind of political import. Brecht, a Marxist playwright, was famous for saying that all Art is political. It either is subversive of power or it supports the status quo.
I saw this image via Stumble Upon and for purposes of this post refer to it as Patent Leather Oppression. The shiny black shoes are supported by the many individual generic plastic figures underneath. In between a piece of clear glass distributes the weight of the black shod individual across the assembled masses, and prevents any mixing between the two.
Marx would call the black shod individual the Capitalist Oppressor and the figures beneath the Proletariat.
I would call the black shod individual Government, and the figures beneath, We The People.
What would you title this image? What do you see?
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With everything going on in the world, this song keeps going through my head. The lyrics are explicit, but they match the energy and images of what we are seeing in the streets.
I think it makes a useful counterpoint to the images below from the last two months or so. Press Play and Scroll Down.
As the music keeps playing and the crowd keeps yelling, keep scrolling past the images and you will get a sense of how much trouble we are in.
Fire, Water Burn by The Bloodhound Gang LIVE
These Canadians were upset over the Canucks loss in the Stanley Cup.
Posers
"Fans"
Students protesting for educational reform in Chile. They want it for free, and to pay for it they demand the nationalization of the Copper Mines. Atlas Shrugs anyone? Where is Francisco d’Anconia when you need him?
Riots ensued after a police shooting.
This shows that the rioters were not local, they came in to the riot locatons for the PURPOSE OF RIOTING
Protests over the high price of housing and cost of living in Israel.
White House Insider: The Obama Plan – Part One | Socyberty.
The latest from the White House Insider. If you are not following this underground narrative of the political machinations within the Democrat Party and the White House, you should be.
Earl Warren
I remember first hearing this quote from my American History and Government teacher in high school and it has always stuck with me. I found it tumbling around inside my head recently after viewing all the pictures from the One Nation rally.
There is no doubt that it was a much smaller affair than the Glenn Beck event.As we can tell from these comparison photos:
But I think we can be lulled into a false sense of security based on these pictures. As I alluded to yesterday in my post “The End of the Beginning” I fully expect the Left to become much more enthusiastic over the next year as the legislative battle becomes fully joined.
What I think are much more revealing actually are the photos of litter all over the Mall.
(Click on the Picture to See More Photos.)
I chose this image rather than the pictures of the Socialist Party banners because what I want to talk about today is the ETHICS of the two different sides of the political debate.
The first side of this debate is dominated by the Capitalists. The founders believed that Capitalism was the only truly moral form of economic and political order as it values the individual over the state. While I found Beck’s rally at times heavy-handed, he is right in one crucial respect. We must become a more ethical country. We must value virtue in individuals rather than celebrity or wealth. And when we become a more ethical country we will find the question of whom to vote for a simple task.
This is already happening as we see the laws the current congress is passing not able to be borne up by the ethical values of the nation. As the tea party movement continues to educate Americans on the true foundational ethic of liberty and the individual responsibility which goes along with it, increasingly more and more bad laws both past and present will begin to sink beneath the waves and founder on rocky shoals of electoral enlightenment.
Those that oppose us however as we can see from the detritus of their rally are the Capitolists. They do not value the individual, but support the idea that all power and economic decisions should be made in the Capitol. Which is why they have little investment in the values which are enshrined in our monuments. Their ethic is precisely the opposite of the what those monuments stand for and their litter is actually a perfect metaphor for their political position: “It’s not my responsibility to clean up our country, it’s the federal government’s.”
Law is always based on an ethic. Do we want our laws to be based on a Capitalist ethic or a Capitolist ethic? That is our choice.
Find the ethical voice inside yourself, and vote accordingly.
