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...film. I realized at the time it didn't matter whether they had seen it. This was not a debate about the spiritual values of Last Temptation; this was a fight about who controls the culture. Last Temptation, like other cultural totems-flag burning, Robert Mapplethorpe, gun control, nea, abortion-had become a symbol of cultural hegemony...
People like pop culture -- that's what makes it popular. Movies drenched in sex and gore, gangsta rap, even outright pornography are not some sort of alien interstellar dust malevolently drifting down on us, but products actively sought out and beloved by millions. When fighting to abolish the NEA and other government support for the arts, conservatives are quick to condemn "cultural alitism" and exalt the majority tastes served by the marketplace. So how can they turn around and blame entertainment corporations for following the money and giving mass audiences what they want? Talk about alitism...
...Judgment Day or NEA installation art--it's Sheehan's, probably the only shop in Boston which advertises itself as "Your Bible Store...
...defend the NEA from Newt Gingrich's snipping shears, send a pair of your own to your senator or representative. The Caucus suggests that you take a pair of plastic scissors, glue them shut so that they won't cut, and write "No Cuts to the Arts" on them. The scissors can be sent through the U.S. Mail in a plastic baggie with a mailing label taped to the outside. Be sure to include a note stating your name and address, and that you are a registered voter...
...Republican revolutionaries in Congress have bravely pledged to put a stop to this. They promise, for example, to eliminate such federally subsidized beachheads of the academic left as the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. (The nea, you will remember, funded Piss Christ and the Mapplethorpe show. The neh, more recently, helped fund U.S. history standards that contained 19 references to Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism, and not one to Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison or the Wright brothers.) The endowments' grantees of progressive and independent vision live, of course, at the teat...