Modern Art
Everyone knows I am a dork. I am known for having a fondness for things that most don't. Needless to say, I find my self channel surfing between cartoons often. Subsequently, the Disney channel has become one of the staples of my routine. Why do I bring this up? I was watching a commercial for Disney's radio stations and marveling in it. Not because I am found of animals singing in human voices, well maybe I am. But, I was certainly not marveling at the commercial for the quality of the singing and the quaintness. No, I was marveling at the marketing. The careful planning, the regurgitation of repetitive pop, the audience tested and parents approved final product. I knew this advertisement was the brain child of a low-level marketing employee. The credit was taken by a higher-level executive and an even higher-level executive took credit for it claiming it was part of his new "Out of the Box" approach. Like his self-led seminars that he subjected his underlings to lead to this out come. This commercial helped maintain Disney's hold over the entertainment business and keep America running the way it is. It assisted keeping jobs in America and was "family friendly". In short I was thinking like a Republican and it scared me. Not that I have anything against Republicans. They do their job and I do mine. By my age group and beliefs I am required to be a Democrat and rather like it. There are many things in the Democratic platform that I agree with. But, when it comes to more real world issues I find my self cheering for the Republicans to get a grip. Their president elect and the congress under him are taking the federal government in a more active role. I know that's not proper grammar, but I can't remember what is at the moment. Interjecting in certain recent events that will remain unnamed was not the place of the government and maybe indicative of something much more traumatic. Bush, in seeking to close the gap, may infact cross it. And so I and indeed the other 49% are reminded of the phrase we asked the rest of you, "what the fsck?"
Anyway, I decide to take a step back and look at like a should, a struggling and unqualified writer. I found myself puzzled by it, or by my fondness for it rather. I know it held relatively no emotional representation, no overall message about the creator or the society s/he lives in. From what I could tell it held no artistic value of any kind, even marketing singing animals was done before my Quiznos. (I think that's the right spelling) Anyway, my point is this: I found my analysis of the commercial reflecting myself more than the commercial. And if this is the case, then maybe all written and verbal analysis are indicative of the author/speaker rather then the subject. Why then do we get so hot-headed in arguments? How can we stand by our convictions knowing that the "Facts" are really just a series of things we believe in? Certainly some can be quantified or qualified my modern science and record keeping. Yet still, a large number of "facts" are just to the contrary, opinions and personal values. Knowing this, what does that mean? Nothing, no grad knowledge or realization can of this. I am not the first person to think of this or write it. So what does it mean? Maybe, that the realization that this thought came to me is enough. Maybe that since I now have more first had experience and know myself better, I can come to terms with the world around me. And then I realize why I like marketed, regurgitated crap, because it's excapeism. And I am back a square one, oh well.
May the Muse smile upon you all
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