Here is a cartoon showing a county commission or city council meeting, could be anywhere.
This is the kind of thing, only slightly exaggerated, that media can get away with, nowadays, maybe the Commission meeting is a stretch, but hey,
with a Hot Dog Stand attendant doubling as a reporter, in a g string, T back, insisting, under her and her firms' rights, that the commission has no authority, or legitimate power to prevent her from covering the meeting (rather than herself) in her T back attire, because she is a card carrying member of the press, covering moreover a meeting in a public forum, and her free speech rights plus individual maverick free expression rights, will be impaired if she is not allowed to carry on, en deshabille, and government in the sunshine requires that the camera be allowed to shine on her glossy behind, as well as on what the commission members may have to say.
Let's give her another single, but her largest, piece of attire, a 4Beaver Stetson cowgirl hat; sort of flounce the Maverick theme a little, for the press corp.
She announces in medias res, that any commissioners, wanting an extra large dog, in a hot bun, with an extra squirt of mustard, have to come to the back end of the line.
Say, perhaps one of the sitting commissioners is a well known, wealthy, savvy, good looking, nude dance club and video rental store owner. He's also a church going family man; nude dancing and soft porn video rentals are just good businesses.
He also took some philosophy courses recently at night, Sartrean existentialism, mainly.
Any critic of government regulation can get a good hearing, if not a seat at the table.
Re Plato's Pop Culture Problem, and Ours Editorial,
re Arnold Schwarzenegger and Plato,
I had not read this editorial when this post was first written, but just now saw it. I had even written the commissioner bit before reading it! Rather a coincidence really, my reference to a video store and nude dancing themes.
The professor comes out, I think, favoring 'freedom' of property and press, regardless of where the chips fall re Plato, or Aeschulus.
Doesn't he, more or less, have to? Perhaps I overstate his affiliations with the publication.
Could one ask for any better, more overt, connection between the freedom of the market place, constitutional expression and property rights of pornographers, and the American intellectual establishment? Could it have been any other way?
Cf. another (phenomenologist existentialist) philosopher, with 'flexible' views: Martin Heidegger, (I don't know whether he was good looking or not, but that is important to Americans),
'Anything Goes', with popular culture.
Perhaps a mise en scene for a cartoon, with Andrew Martin, Sartre, Heidegger, this editorial author, and even perhaps Governor Scharzenegger (as an enforcer), would be in order?
Theme music: (IT REALLY SELDOM GETS BETTER THAN THIS, RE PHENOMENOLOGY THEME):
LOST IN A MASQUERADE
Think also, Carnival of Venice,
and , oh why not say it,
DON GIOVANNI
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