What lasts longer news or art? Why Bushco won't win forever...

I was thinking about 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, about the rewriting of history and the burning of books, and then I felt a lot better.

Let me elaborate, since an opening like that does merit an explanation, I was thinking about how hard it would be for them to eliminate everything that talks about how evil they are. Thanks to the internet and thanks to technology it is virtually impossible for them to destroy every copy of Fahreheit 9/11, every dvd of Star Wars, South Park, the Chapelle Show, or the Daily Show (the DVD comes out in June). The music of Dylan, Eminem, Green Day, etc will be around forever. Millions of Anti-Bush books have been published, bought and sold. Pop culture might be littered with junk but it is also full of art that likes to point out that Bushco is evil.

They will never completely wipe us out as I had feared because the big corporations that publish books, record music, make television and movies are too greedy and have mass produced anything that they think will sell, even if it is anti-Bush. If they started cracking down, we have the technology in our homes to recreate all of it, books, CDs, DVDs, etc.

In a hundred years the only thing that people will remember about the US corporate media of the early 21st Century is that they were an enemy to the people and enabled horrible tyrants to run our country. But the arts created during all this will transend and live on to inspire countless future generations.

Thinking about it like that made me feel pretty good and I'd thought I'd share.

the thing that drives this machine will eventually prove to be it's downfall.

thanks ;)

I should probably change the title though this one is getting no play.

Any suggestions?

your title is kinda confusing. It's a stretch for most people to compare "news" with "art," since art is such an all-encompassing term.

You might say "News vs Pop Culture--why Bushco won't win forever..."

I agree--the Truth is oozing out in Pop Culture and in various art forms. It's hard to contain a cesspool forever...
All the relevant writing, music, video, visual art, cartoons--stand as a testimonial to these times. They are giving us all hope and strength now. Good points, Melodybe