May 01, 2003
We are the Shadow Government
According to today's article in the Washington Post, "To Packer and company, the Internet is the right place to plant propaganda and fantasy." See the full transcript of the article.
This is precisely why we have announced that Abe Golam, politician and info-shaman, is entering the 2004 Presidential Race. Mr. Golam, in announcing he is forming an exploratory committee, declared his candidacy would "stir up controversy throughout the global computer networks, that 'non-place' where the true battle for democracy in America will be fought and won."
"If the American people want a lifelong, corporeal politician in the White House, that's not me," Mr. Golam said in a webcast news conference. "They'll have a group of people to choose from if that's what they want. If they want instead somebody who is closer to them, more connected to them, someone who will subvert the dominant paradigm, who is willing to gnaw into the body politic, inhabit it, and lay his demon seed, that is me."
Abe Golam is best known as a pop culture info-shaman, a leading proponent of copyright-free art and entertainment products. Since his debut in Mark Amerika's internationally acclaimed website GRAMMATRON, released on the net in 1997, Golam has been a political activist and performer in various on-line and live theatrical events as well.
See the full text of the announcement.
Randall M. Packer
Secretary, US Department of Art & Technology
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The democratic ideal and the United States Constitiution were founded on the principles of the Enlightenment. That the people could reasonably choose representatives to serve as their leaders. Alas the propaganda that has enveloped the electoral process, when political candidates aspire to sway the masses through propaganda instead of through reasonable argument.
The key to saving the future of democracy, assuming that democracy’s future is in jeopardy, is not through even more propaganda, but reasonable discourse. If “the Internet is the right place for propaganda”, that propaganda should be used to promote change in the concrete world is a non sequetor.
Adding more propaganda to the already existing propaganda within political process will likely accomplish little change, save to increase the amount of unreason in politics and on the Internet.
Posted by: Voiceofreason at May 2, 2003 09:27 AM
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