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22.7.04
Why Artists Are Rallying Against Bush
Business Week has a piece this week on the wholesale support of the artistic community of anyone but Bush. The article posits that there is not so much a groundswell for John Kerry as a fear of erosion of civil liberties. So. Whoopi can lick Bush, secure that the only law she broke was that of good taste. BW Online | July 21, 2004 | Why Artists Are Rallying Against Bush
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A thought: Artists may be "naturally" rallying against Bush because he violates Aesthetic sensibilities. Bush disguises really terrible programs with verbal masks (No child left behind, Healthy forests Act, etc), submerges truth, hides wisdom from his "audience", and enforces (with the aid of sculpture draping Ashcroft and others) a narrow-view morality on a diverse Nation.
I always feel that Artists are far ahead of the pack when defining the look and feel issues of ethics and morals. Politicians tend to respond to smaller sensibilities. From Socrates to Lenny Bruce to Whoopi, it's the folks like Dubya who try to stop intelligent thought and who are only revealed after the act has happenned.
Artists know!
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