This is some seriously scary shit…
On one side of the world, we have hunger riots. On the other, a new law that should protect people from self-opposed starvation. The bill that still faces a vote in the French Senate would take aim at any means of mass communication – magazines, blogs, Web sites – that promote eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia with punishments of up to three years in prison and €45,000 fines. More than 30,000 people in
I found two quotes which illustrate the state of mind:
“We turn skeletons into goddesses, and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
„Hunger is power. “
I am really angry that my name is associated with so much stupidity and pain.
Tags: Commentary, Feminism, Media, System
I assume that its the thing that over time creates a lot of creativity: the negative association with words. i wonder what amount of things in each culture is labeled ‘tabu’ just because it would associate with something that is shunned by the society? Just think about the issue with blue clothes in Austria during Haider’s high times. Copyrights are doing the rest.
I am happy on the one side that we are striving therefore to do things always different, but with D.Telekom patenting the color Magenta and Adidas clothes with stripes, I wonder what we will feel free to use in a total information society where anyone who has bad intend could use, to cause collateral damage, a company’s logo as a symbol for his outkast doings? Such as neo-nazis used “Lonsdale” shirts under jackets to show “NSDA” (-P) off to the public.
I guess sooner or later we have to get rid of these associations, otherwise we limit our language more and more.