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IanB
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Edited Feb 18, 2012, 12:17
Re: Psychedelic Revolution
Feb 18, 2012, 11:56
riverman wrote:
Squid Tempest wrote:
I think that is part of why I'm enjoying it more than I initially thought I was going to. It's been making me grin.


Regarding the guns etc - why can't this just be a provocative stance? Get the authorities worried, shake some folk out of their apathy, get people stirred into peaceful action (this is assuming anybody outside HH notices the album - there's usually a review or two by now of a new JC album).

Assuming similar ideas were worked into a novel or a film and the cover of both had someone wielding a gun would that create such a storm?



Why can't it just be provocative? That's the Death in June argument. The idea that one is contemptibly bourgeois if you challenge the uncritical use of certain imagery.

Personally I have a deep problem with anything that could be taken to be a literal celebration of those activists for whom the death of civilians was an acceptable and necessary part of the collatoral damage incurred in the "struggle". That made them no better than Hitler and his indiscriminate bombing of the Thames U bend. Or Guernica.

There are some fences you can't play both sides of even with the application of any number of layers of irony. Especially from the comfort of a Safe European Home. "I'd stay an' be a tourist but i can't take the gunplay". Indeed.
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