Posted a link on FB this week that prompted some cool comments. Thought I’d migrate the string of conversation blog-side to see if it elicits any other responses…
Step One - Read the Torontoist article, ‘The Political Side of Canadian Glam Rock,’ a very well-written interview with one of my long-time favourite Canadian recording artists (not to mention Muskoka-area lovelies), Hawksley Workman, about his music tour, which coincided with our recent federal election campaign.
Step Two - Dig deep & suss out your own feelings about the recent election. I was caught up in the tech crunchiness of the month, & was nerd-neutral on that platform, which I appreciate in hindsight - it was a great experience to write about digital communications & partisan politics, especially while American election static was reaching an all-time high.
Step Three - Dive in & let me know what you think. Couldn’t help feeling pangs of guilty pleasure after reading HK’s snarkiest quotes, but let’s start the convo with my favourite HW quote: “…our country is being dragged back to a time when people were asking less questions.”
To answer the whaddayathink prompt - Simon cited romanempire.net’s examples of media/entertainment being used as a tool to replace/distract citizens from political rights. We still see this in the fluffier of the policy outputs, the sloganeering, black’n'white-ing of issues during a campaign - & that side of politics certainly isn’t new, most recently we had pooping puffins, doctored tapes, etc, etc.
Roger chimed in to say that questions are being posed “within a smaller ‘lobbying/activist’ cohort” more than others…hrm…dunno if I agree with that, but I do like his follow-ups, that “Political double speak, unclear priorities, and in-action, don’t exactly inspire the masses to engage in the process.”
Do you agree that we ask less questions? of government? of our institutions? each other? Y’all just tired of all the politickin’ & gun shy of the parliamentary gong show that could result from a possible coalition government?
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