Washington & Hollywood Join Hands

by Pier Marton | May 1, 2013 | Death, Humor, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Spectacle, Theater, US, Wars

… to state in unison that they can’t do much more than smile and laugh… now that the NRA has once more won and that Guantanamo will remain indefinitely open.
War relief, comic relief?
What is on: the joke is ON, the show is ON, the spectacle goes ON… and dissent is co-opted and absorbed. Too uncool, it is time to laugh.
The surface of politics and that of entertainment rejoice in their union, a joke within a joke. What are we laughing at?
Can the tradition of the Correspondents’ Dinner be maintained as wars kill?
HUMOR REQUIRES A BITE – otherwise it is just a pacifier.

Time to Re-Read “Amusing Ourseslves to Death” author, Neil Postman?
Kevin Spacey’s “satire,” or is it a celebration?

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus