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immigration and fret about what increasing numbers of foreign men women will do to the cohesiveness of society obviously i share few of these concerns i think some are overblown some unfounded entirely some based in reasoning or faith which i don t share nonetheless they are fears which are often as genuine and deeply felt as our own and simply believing them to be wrong doesn t make them vanish nor will simply mocking those concerns make anyone more susceptible to your point of view tempting though that often is in the long run of course we re all dead but if we want to go out of this world with a little deeper an understanding of humans than we currently possess if we want to gain a broader understanding of the beliefs and principles that guide the people around us if we want to edge just a few inches closer to the better societies we profess to want it would be useful for us to take the time to understand our opponents rather than ascribing unfairly miserly misanthropic attributes to them that goes for the left and the right update also read this liberal fetishes august 26 2010 at 4 24 pm posted in british politics new labour 3 comments being such a well versed connoisseur of hip hop i do have a love for the way words sound when spoken fetish has this wonderfully illicit forbidden quality which works well as a description for this blogger s love of cider subsequent habit of listening to 80s soft rock context however is everything and in writing i ve often used it far more pejoratively when writing about education or crime justice i ve often described both excessive testing and incarceration as fetishes and used the word to suggest a kind of unthinking indulgence in policies with questionable long term benefit on the police state blog lib dem activist lizw has a different take when told that her fellow lib dems possess a civil liberties fetish she hears the implication that there s something transgressive or deviant about their policy preferences whilst i m hardly qualified to pry into the semantic intentions of others that s not an interpretation i d share certainly some civil libertarians myself included would advocate certain freedoms which the rest of society isn t ready to accept chief among them the legalisation of drugs however most demands of the civil liberty mainstream identity cards 42 days detention control orders are perfectly reasonable and grounded as much in a quite conservative desire for a judicious and restrained state the last word i would use to describe an establishmentarian like henry porter is deviant instead i often hear the civil liberties fetish used as a synonym for obsession and signifying a belief that the priorities of civil libertarians are misplaced i m not stating anything revelatory when i note that the driving force for many on the left is improving equality of outcome and bettering the material conditions of the working class insofar as liberty is desirable the best way of getting there is by achieving greater equality for that reason you wouldn t expect to see a labour member willing to trade for example a rise in vat for a reduction in the number of speed cameras or a regressive budget for a refurendum on the voting system for labour supporters the two don t balance each other out of course as a result there s was often an inclination among labour politicians straw and blunkett spring to mind to dismiss civil liberty concerns as frivolous indulgences sure enough there may not be large percentages of working class voters clamoring for prisoners to have the right to vote but that denial was still aimed aimed predominantly at members of that class moreover there were many occasions where labour s lack of an instinct for liberty led to situations of material injustice too denying asylum seekers the right to work instituting a prohibitive tax rate for the lowest earners and attempting to reform welfare into an increasingly bureaucratic labyrinthine system of conditionality as the party moves forward labour needs to be careful not to dismiss liberty as an indulgence of rich people but a right of all people and work to maximise its promise of liberty wherever possible this needn t mean betraying or disavowing its class conscience merely refusing to use that conscience to justify its more statist instincts the good man marshall and the scoundrel shady august 25 2010 at 3 29 pm posted in celebrity music art etcetera 1 comment half the shit i say i just make it up to make you mad so kiss my white naked ass eminem criminal by the late 1960s the beatles creativity had reached such absurd proportions that they were even inventing meta humour on the white album s glass onion a pleasant but inessential psychedelic ramble john lennon treats his listeners to a couple of minutes of gibberish full of in jokes references to old songs insofar as it had a point the song was a sneaky rejoinder to all those who overanalysed the beatles music trawling their records for messages and meaning which was always far more elaborate than the band intended for lennon sometimes a song could simply be about nothing his mistake was typical of artists who become frustrated when their thoughts or feelings are misheard or mangled in the minds of their audience as roland barthes noted just as notions of authorship allowed artists to control how their work was received and consumed so the idea of authorial intent gave the illusion that they could set the terms by which their work was understood when we entered times of mass consumption intent became irrelevant like literature or film the meaning or meaninglessness of songs is seldom self evident and the interpretations we attach to them are very often different from those the artist intends meaning is not created for us but by us and though we can all be influenced or coerced into sharing the meanings of others there are always times when our unguided minds will form understandings which are unusual or unique a quick search of songmeanings net will demonstrate what i mean its users attach thousands of different meanings memories and interpretations to their favourite songs all of them right all of them wrong there she goes is either a love song or an ode to heroin born in the usa is working class turmoil or reaganite nationalism the boy with the thorn in his side is either social commentary or a sardonic swipe at morrissey s critics by ignoring the urge to know the intent behind each song listeners are liberated to create meanings for ourselves there s nothing lennon or anyone else could do about it there s arguably no one in the history of recorded sound that has manipulated this freedom more than marshall mathers since the release in 1999 of the slim shady lp the artist sold as eminem has delighted in shocking appalling and confounding his audience making himself an extraordinarily rich man in the process the marshall mathers lp is now 10 years old the source of this confusion this willful deception these tens of millions of records was mather s slim shady alter ego the hyper violent axe wielding horror movie manic who could mortify both liberals and conservatives alike mathers shady was portrayed as a demented lunatic who despised women hated gays and fantasised over among other things their rape humiliation and murder but an alter ego gimmick doesn t make for a long career eminem perpetually contrasted the shady villain against the more somber restrained real marshall mathers the doting father the betrayed son the mentally ill drug addict the tortured soul by doing so mathers almost created a clever way of blaming the hate violence of his songs on shady whilst intimating that his more serious less offensive material the stans the cleaning out my closets lose yourself were more reflective of him as a person were this distinction obvious and evident it would ve gone a long way towards settling eminem s cultural worth if the hate and misogyny of his material could simply be attributed to a fictional character then it would ve been possible to receive those songs in much the same way as one receives a horror movie or a novel about a serial killer if on the other hand the violence and hate of the shady villain are sourced from the artist s own antipathies then it s not so much art as the mad fantasies of a deeply disturbed mind whether it was accident or design mathers never allowed his audience that reassurance the lines between the shady villain and the real marshall have always been blurred none more so has that been evident than in eminem s depiction of women generally and domestic violence in particular regardless of which character was responsible for it mathers music is uniquely misogynistic where other rappers would diss bitches out of some ritualistic chest beating eminem s misogyny is specific women are either dumb and vacuous sluts only interested in his wealth fame or they re cruel deceptive and treacherous both are met with equal rage and yet there remains a most curious paradox insofar as eminem mathers shady is the most creative and committed woman hater his genre has ever known he remains the only misogynist in rap to have written at least three songs against domestic violence from eminem s controversial video love the way you lie on first reading that seems a rather contrarian statement after all on 97 bonnie clyde he raps about dumping his dead wife s body on the unlistenably gruesome kim he kills her before our very ears and on the recently released love the way you lie he threatens to tie her up set the house on fire the fawcett society this ain t yet the shock of hearing those songs the controversy they caused and the concern about the effect these kinds of messages have on his young fans shouldn t obscure the fact that mathers succeeds in casting himself in the most despicable light whether it s the chilling calm and pathetic justifications of 97 bonnie clyde the unhinged breakdown of kim or the conflicted quasi apologies of love the way you lie the same characteristics creep out of the speakers constantly jealous insecure obsessive possessive resorting to violence every time he loses control and incapable of taking responsibility for his behaviour whatever else might be troubling about the messages mathers submits in these songs he makes one thing clear these are the characteristics of an abuser but these aren t reasons to lionise mathers indeed they place his less violent woman hating in an even more unsettling context further suggesting that his misogyny can t just be passed off as the ranting of his lunatic alter ego but drawn directly from his own dysfunction the impossibility of distinguishing between the good man marshall and the scoundrel shady is the reason that eminem s artistic value remains undefined contentious some see a man who highlighted savaged the hypocrisies of pop culture american society others see a bully who got rich off the back of the women and homosexuals he threatened with rape humiliation murder ultimately i suspect the final judgement will be a combination of the two an outrageously talented rapper a seriously flawed man who in the end just couldn t decide whether he wanted to be a cartoon maniac or a serious artist confessions of a community organiser august 22 2010 at 8 16 am posted in british politics new labour 3 comments tags fiction from the labour party just weeks after my endorsement i knew there was more to be done as someone with a zeal for progressive politics i voted lib dem in 05 because of the war and in 2010 when they promised a new politics the time had come to become more involved i wasn t sure about that preppy prefect nick clegg but it was still a huge disappointment when he fell into bed with the conservatives it was like watching lois lane fall for lex luthor all over again i did have reservations about joining the labour party after all it was labour who had saddled me with this student debt waged all those terribly terrible wars and made me smoke outside on winter nights instead in of the snug warmth of my sadly departed local was labour really the place for a progressive like me alas the stakes are too high to worry about that the next election will be important definitely more important than 2010 and probably as important as when we got rage against the machine to christmas number one as i told my friends it doesn t matter if you hate the song what matters is that we win that s kinda how i felt about joining the labour party all that was left was to find the candidate who would lead us to victory i researched diligently i visited their websites watched hustings online and read their essays for the fabians i was still none the wiser then one night i discovered a video that changed everything his supporters posted this inspiring professional promo set to a tune by boy meets girl who doesn t love boy meets girl packed with images of their man looking dynamic leaderlike and sticking it to the tories i soon made my endorsement public image by wef i support david miliband because he is a progressive i support him because he knows that we need to make cuts just by a few billion less than those other guys i support him because only he knows how to cut fairly cut progressively i support him because after 100 days of a condem government britain is crying out for change and that change is a return to everything we wanted to change in the first place the endorsement was my facebook status for three days within hours it had been liked by three friends i had to keep the momentum going i shared links to speeches david made his statements on the big issues i tried to show his human side too his sense of humour his sense of fun the responses were hugely encouraging only one ex friend blocked my facebook account and he was a no good abbottite anyway but i knew this wasn t enough that there was more to do after all did barack obama get to the white house through people just squatting in their bedrooms pasting youtube clips on their friends walls i knew that i had to step my game up to become the change i wanted to see then i finally took the plunge i decided to host a house meeting for david miliband my mind danced with opportunities i read saul alinsky and david plouffe downloaded powerpoint slides about community organising and drew mind maps for how i could sell david to my friends and neighbours could david ride a wave of grassroots support all the way to the doors of downing street could we really build an obamaesque movement for change yes we can or so i thought having never organised a community before i wasn t sure how to begin thankfully david had already thought of this he thinks of everything and he uploaded a handy how to guide on his website for a whole week before the meeting it became my bible the only thing standing between me and a disorganised community i quickly began acting on its instructions think of the people you want to invite first start with the local labour party 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