Political expression through t-shirts
Posted by unbrand on 25 March 2005 | 0 Comments
Maybe it’s the lazy person’s way to be political. Or maybe it’s just fun. But lately I’ve been getting into searching for really cool t-shirts. Sure, I’ve done the Cafepress thing with our own design but frankly, the quality of the imaging sucks because it’s just a heat-transfer thing as opposed to real silk screening. I’m always down for a good band t-shirt but even better are shirts that combine blood, Mickey Mouse, and politics. I ordered one today. Could not resist.
Then I remembered something I read on Rigorous Intuition earlier today:
In a July 2001 interview, Bob Dylan said “We are living in a science-fiction world where Disney and Disney’s science-fiction have won. This is the real world. Science-fiction has become the real world, whether we realize it or not.”
Hmmm. Did Walt Disney really win? Perhaps in American culture he did, considering how much of American culture is based on cheap fantasy. If he did win (in America), then his attitudes are at the core of how America is perceived and/or acts. Things start to seriously get interesting when you think about who the real terrorists are.