Thanks for saying all this so well. Here's an observation. Not a criticism. A call for action, I think. This material from your closing, "Subservience will be the death of beauty, and may we live in shame and fear if we do not oppose it while we still have the chance. We often forget that freedom, and guaranteeing more freedom to the masses, is the ultimate goal of an emancipatory political project. Does the culture that has made Gorman a star feel like one that prioritizes freedom? Leave your fear behind, cross over to the other side, and reclaim the freedom that they try to strip you of every day of your lives." is not particularly precise. Your final sentence fits onto "we must embrace it." Powerful. This little passage I've pulled out is full of undefined terms, such as "the death of beauty" (I remember it being declared dead back in the 80s at least), "shame and fear" (surely, something precise is meant?), "still have the chance" (sure, we can guess, but it would be better to spell it out), "masses" (a term worth up-dating), "emancipatory political project" (a wide-open descriptor), "freedom" (always a head-scratcher), "other side" (troublingly vague), and "they" (wouldn't naming this vague 'they' be useful? wouldn't it open doors?). These are all terms outside the boundaries of your article, which is brilliant, and you are right to give them such short space here. However, they make a knot that suggests a second article, one that links them together and relates them to an ongoing story. VP Harris on the cover of Vogue, plus the body language between her and Michelle Obama at the inauguration, et-cet-er-a, linked to the symbol of Lady Gaga's costume while she sang (another poem in those lyrics), all as part of a massive propaganda event. That suggests itself as just one of many starting points. I tell ya, I'd sure love to see you expand this paragraph using the tools you've already proven you have mastered, set into relief against revolutionary art from other cultural times or locales, as you have done so admirably here. Of course, maybe it is all about the colour of dresses and words don't matter in this culture anymore, that one speaks in other ways. If that's so, the progression of the collapse of Empire should be predictable and its replacement with aristocratic imagery and courtly behaviour, both in American and Global terms, should be pretty clear, and very troubling. I see all that in that scrunched paragraph. I'm writing to urge you to pry the thing open and let whatever story you have in there speak. I sure want to read it.
Her poetry was an attempt at stand up comedy, maybe? Wish her luck. Remember when I was completely confident in my ideals at that age; we all were, right? Never wrote a poem for a president, though... maybe there's hope for me yet.
Excellent essay, really well written. All my support!
Thanks for saying all this so well. Here's an observation. Not a criticism. A call for action, I think. This material from your closing, "Subservience will be the death of beauty, and may we live in shame and fear if we do not oppose it while we still have the chance. We often forget that freedom, and guaranteeing more freedom to the masses, is the ultimate goal of an emancipatory political project. Does the culture that has made Gorman a star feel like one that prioritizes freedom? Leave your fear behind, cross over to the other side, and reclaim the freedom that they try to strip you of every day of your lives." is not particularly precise. Your final sentence fits onto "we must embrace it." Powerful. This little passage I've pulled out is full of undefined terms, such as "the death of beauty" (I remember it being declared dead back in the 80s at least), "shame and fear" (surely, something precise is meant?), "still have the chance" (sure, we can guess, but it would be better to spell it out), "masses" (a term worth up-dating), "emancipatory political project" (a wide-open descriptor), "freedom" (always a head-scratcher), "other side" (troublingly vague), and "they" (wouldn't naming this vague 'they' be useful? wouldn't it open doors?). These are all terms outside the boundaries of your article, which is brilliant, and you are right to give them such short space here. However, they make a knot that suggests a second article, one that links them together and relates them to an ongoing story. VP Harris on the cover of Vogue, plus the body language between her and Michelle Obama at the inauguration, et-cet-er-a, linked to the symbol of Lady Gaga's costume while she sang (another poem in those lyrics), all as part of a massive propaganda event. That suggests itself as just one of many starting points. I tell ya, I'd sure love to see you expand this paragraph using the tools you've already proven you have mastered, set into relief against revolutionary art from other cultural times or locales, as you have done so admirably here. Of course, maybe it is all about the colour of dresses and words don't matter in this culture anymore, that one speaks in other ways. If that's so, the progression of the collapse of Empire should be predictable and its replacement with aristocratic imagery and courtly behaviour, both in American and Global terms, should be pretty clear, and very troubling. I see all that in that scrunched paragraph. I'm writing to urge you to pry the thing open and let whatever story you have in there speak. I sure want to read it.
She is beautiful black woman whose tits are bigger than adams chink wife
Now I know a great artist must do heroin and bugger kids. Sorry Shakespeare, you're condemned for trying to buy your way into the aristocracy.
You nailed it dude! Great article here about Gorman's acquiescence with power: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/26/gorm-f26.html
I really liked that piece.
Her poetry was an attempt at stand up comedy, maybe? Wish her luck. Remember when I was completely confident in my ideals at that age; we all were, right? Never wrote a poem for a president, though... maybe there's hope for me yet.