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questions of "appropriateness" and the politics that attend them rarely interest me.
i do not care about the matter of whether nudity in the form of marble statues somehow offends a constituency out there somewhere, whether and how they mobilize that constituency..nor do i care about the fcc as arbitor of these matters. like others earlier in the thread, perhaps i would find this more intersting if there was an equivalent concern about violence. or about the slide into fascism. but there isnt.
i do not understand the drive toward censorship of nudity. i do not understand or accept the assumptions concerning the "innocence" of childhood, nor about the notion of "family values" that seems to have been made as a grotesque correlate of it. what i see in this is a neurotic obsession with control, one that plays directly into the fantasies of purity and will i mentioned earlier.
as for the public airwaves and the fcc more generally--in general i agree with martinguerre's last post.
the right's abhorrence of the notion of the public seems to figure in this as well...better for them to allow the rise of media empires like clear channel and confuse privatized airwaves with a kind of public holding that the right can accept. nothing to do with the quality of broadcasting, nothing to do with the content--everything to do with perversions particular to conservative ideology, with reducing the possibility of broadcasters being held to account for meaningful conflict they increasingly should encounter with notions of a pluralistic public, a gradual erasure of the space for a politics of broadcast media.
instead, what you get handed to you as "meaningful" poltical questions is pure diversion: trivial, idiotic matters like what mr mephsto cited at the start of this thread.
as for the question of "facing reality" as over against "facing the media" i think maybe there was confusion about the register i was talking on...what i tried to point to operates a a level prior to the actual conflict the thread is considering.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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