The Casanova hand of the market in American politicians is writ large in people like Reagan, Palin, etc.
Why not pursue a cartoon theme of political leadership, intellect, beauty and ugly, a character for example not necessarily nonintellectual, but dissembling about their savvy (not necessarily absent any intellectual acumen), to appeal to a dumbed down electorate?
Anyway, this is good food for a cartoon or two or three.
Previous posts re Andy Martin Ugly Philosophers editorial addressed some different issues, bonobos, etc, etc.
One theme he hit, ugly philosophers, rings bells re the disgust some Greeks felt for ugly Socrates, as against for example his one-time star politician pupil beautiful, licentious, Alcibiades.
We need another image, similar to the one staged in Andy Martin's bathroom, with the mirror seen by the viewer, say Marilyn or Miller's bathroom? The mirror for reflections of certain sorts, an image on the back wall perhaps.
Andy Martin does not need to be in this one, but Arthur Miller perhaps has to be implied, somewhere.
More on this anon.
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