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hmm...
i think of art as the conveyance of thought or emotion to the mind experiencing the art through a medium. eminem excels in using musical performance as his medium of communication. i judge this video to be both art and propaganda.
as reflected by my posts in the jon stewart threads, my worry is the weight that is placed on propaganda that is also pop culture. we seem to take too much of our political thought from the loudest, the funniest, the beautiful and the most obscene. a learned man who has devoted his life to understanding knowledge and truth will lecture to an empty room while the crude attention of pop culture is revered as "genius".
it's an issue of imbalance, we've lost coherence.
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~ Winston Churchill
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