Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
I was going to erase my last post after Robyn’s two comments (if you haven’t read ’em, you should, cos they’re devastating), but I hate the idea of trying to save face by eliminating any resemblance of the past. I went back over the last post, tho, several times & found it once hilarious, once sorrowful, once embarassing, once confusing; in short, I won’t forget it or apologize for it or defend it. It is what it is (mostly what it is, tho, is a barely-literate paragraph of nonsense written as my hands were shaking with nerves cos I don’t do so well giving presentations. I used to have a bad stuttering problem, it affected my persona in front of crowds forever…I don’t know why this is important. Or why this parenthesis is still open…). Let me see if I can articulate my point better now that it’s midnite & I’m comfortable.
First the video, cos I didn’t explain it at all: the video is for a song by the Evolution Control Committee, the term “song” being used very liberally here. The mash-up artists created the song by amassing hours of CBS Evening News tapes & cutting them up to form horrible news delivered in newscaster’s Dan Rather’s classically deadpan voice. AC/DC’s “Back in Black” was also stolen, ripped up, & reformed as the backing beat to Rather’s words. The objective here, of course, was not just to re-use that which already exists to create a new product, but to manipulate truth to create an entirely new truth, one which exists without explicitly having ever existed at all. The song was more of a point than the video itself, which is interesting but seemingly shocking for not much good reason. I don’t care if you ignore the video, it’s pretty gruesome & excessive, but the song is one of the most important in modern music history, that’s for sure. I won’t go off about it more, but I find it all very interesting, it’s one of my favorite pieces of music.
But for truth: I don’t mean to be cynical about it, but I mean to be syntactical, cos that’s something I’m always interested in. It isn’t about the meaning of the word, here, but rather the lack of meaning that the word possesses, or rather what any & all words possess. Truth is not real, not because it’s corrupt (I don’t know where that idea had come from), but because it’s a word easily manipulated by people – all of mankind. I will stick my original guns, however, in saying I think Morris’ Thin Blue Line is a study of corruption & agendas rather than truth or facts. I’ll admit it can be observed in about a million ways, but the political injustice is too blatant in my eyes; perhaps I’m blinded by the physical, tho. But that just refers back to the ol’ film/reality coppendium complex. Let’s get into that later.
Did I really use Revelation for the title of my last post? How typical, how sadly typical. Someone blog for me from now on.