| January 3, 2003 Our New Year Resolution |
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by the MPM design team
AS NOTED previously, we are visual design souljers specializing in digital arts, drug war policy and economic theory. In light of the aesthetic disaster and concurrent economic decline of our nation, we were recently commissioned by Star Thorns, a gorgeous think-tank with interests in United States domestic policy, to design a vision for the upcoming year.... Background: Confronted with the Great Depression at the beginning of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Project Administration (W.P.A.) as means to put people back to work. The U.S. Government actually hired the vast legions of the unemployed.. to create art. Results came in the form of plays and films to educate and entertain, murals to rejuvenate the depressed cities and new ideas that experimented with the social order. The Now: With the present crumbling state of affairs, our own President seems no more capable of creating a peace and prosperity than is his nemesis, Bin Laden. Both men use violence as the operative tool, and both neglect the vast, glorious histories of creativity that they are born from. While Bin Laden has turned blind eye (in favor of an orthodox Delta force) to the incredible artistic, mathematic and scientific legacy that once elevated Islam to a high pillar of peace, Bush has likewise forgotten intelligent and creative options in bringing his country out of the economic and political danger that it has plunged into. Mr. Bush, you hope a war will revive our nation. Our proposal: We think it might be wiser to skip the imperialism and think longer-term. Why not start the building now? Begin in the already downtrodden hoods of our own nation and create construction jobs while you liven and regenerate a nation. Hire muralists to paint over the decay of poverty. Forget about the weed smokers and focus on the educationally deprived. It's cheaper than jails over the long haul to build recording studios in every ghetto, now. Spending stimulates economy; spend on us. Subsidizing a community revitalization economy is a viable alternative to subsidizing a war economy. Bring back the W.P.A. with renewed vigor, hiring citizens to rebuild every burned-out building on Fulton Ave., Brooklyn. And finally, perhaps you might even divert your portfolio and our future of science from the science of weaponry to the research and development science of Energy. ________________________________ |
| January 6, 2003 RICARDO IS RETARDO |
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aka The Dissent
Hey, I don't understand how, in the same breath, you present yourself as an intellectual, forward-thinking, economic policy-making organization, and then suggest your master plan is... a revival of the W.P.A.? This reads like an 8th grade social studies assignment, from the retarded class, on an off day. One nice thing I can say about you guys is you support free speech -often just for the sake of doing it as a stunt and for looking cool among your peers, but still, you support free speech to the fullest. So I feel free to say, this idea was so fucking stupid, that I never want to get another email from Magic Propaganda Mill again. I'm sure there are plenty of college students and post-college-acting-like-college students who are image-conscious and self-righteous enough to buy into anything that sounds countercultural in order to make themselves seem "down" so it's not like you need me in the audience. Steve _____________________________________________ |
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