File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-11-30.184, message 176


From: BestPoet-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 03:26:00 -0500
Subject: Re: artists and revolution


>The institutionalized revolution is a form of permanent opposition, It is
ultimately reformist rather than re-visionist, its terms, strategies and
tactics are re-active and are more often then not controled by those who
actually have an invested interest in domination.  The permanent opposition
ultimately comes to have an invested interest in the existing order of
things.

Personally, I think evolution has more of a chance than revolution. I mean
once you've got Revlon hawking "Revolutionary makeup for revolutionary
women", well, the word is dead. Now it might make sense if the makeup style
they were selling was caking your face full of that black gunk that soldiers
put on out in the field. But of course, it's just the same ole, same ole:
Ruby up the lips and scary up the eyes. Not that I'm against makeup, mind
you. I just don't think lipstick should be applied on the mouth.

By the way, my favorite political action occurred in India a few years ago. I
wish I could remember the details better, (I can't even remember what they
were protesting) but 20,000 Indians surrounded the capital of one of the
Indian states and laughed for two hours.

Millie Neon 
(who desperately needs to sleep)


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