Comment by R.U. Sirius: "Kerry lost Ohio, and the election, over cultural issues. Polls show that voters trusted him more on the economy AND on Iraq, but they voted for Bush over “moral values.” Apparently moral values include lying the country into war; killing over 100,000 people; torture – including sexual torture in prisons; ad infinitum (everybody here already knows the litany). But the most important moral value is in not acknowledging love between two people of the same gender. Secondary values of import include voicing the words “under god” while putting your hand over your heart and pledging your faith to your nation state’s icon. Etc. As Tom Franks points out, people in the Headless Heartland vote to end abortion and clean up the media but what they actually GET is deregulation and policies favoring the factory farms that put them out of business. But now, as the political realities clarify, the cultural conservatives may actually start to win some serious political victories, pushed along by a Bush Supreme Court. The next four years belong to John Ashcroft and the American Taliban which also means that
ANTI-authoritarians take center stage..." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
