Jim Fouratt: CulturalInstigator: Do the Media Glamorize Drugs? Panelists discussed whether and how various media forms glamorize drug use and whether this affects personal behavior. There was also heated discussion over whether government policies can impact drug usage. They also took questions from the audience.

Monday, December 19, 2016

Do the Media Glamorize Drugs? Panelists discussed whether and how various media forms glamorize drug use and whether this affects personal behavior. There was also heated discussion over whether government policies can impact drug usage. They also took questions from the audience.

WOW .. look what I just found .. a discussion on Does the Media Glamorize Drugs. It took place, not yesterday .. but it could have, but 20 years ago in Washington DC and was broadcast on C-Span .. Beside me, the panel included the ever handsome and smart John Leland, John was the former Editor of Details and is now a New York Times reporter.. I was at the tiime a Senior VP of A&R at Mercury Records.. It is really a smart discussion .. it took place in a Presidential campaign year and as I said, it could have been the same conversation in 2016

please give a listen .. and it gets better as it goes on .. do let me know what you think

https://www.c-span.org/video/?76281-1/media-glamorize-drugs

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Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.
Yes indeed there is a culture war going .. but you know that if you have arrived here. We suggest that you put theory into practice by taking virtual you and virtual ideas into the reality of real live physical and cognitive action.

MEANING: get up and out of your chair and do something physical in real time. OCCUPY YOUR BODY. Be physical.

The fuel is love, compassion and curiosity. Anger is a result of the repression of fear and distances one from compassionate change ... do the Che Che cha cha cha .. or if you prefer the Stiegler tango! or the Shulamith Firestone death metal raga!

PRAXIS is the action of putting into practice the thoughts, theories and desires running through your bio-magnetic, nerve sensitive self. Reality propelled by the friction of input/output.

Damn it, it should be fun !

I will share with you my interaction in the real world and the theoretical world and invite you to do the same.

Politics is an everyday affair. Politics is how we live our lives Every action or non-action we do is a political act. Culture is the expression of desire in public interactive way.

So jump in please.

Join me in participating in life. Making change starts with self and ripples out. Pop culture is where I live ..not in some isolated, white tower, postmodern, distancing intellectual thought or theory. Theory in practice is praxis . It used to be called dialectics .. still a good word even if dressed up in new theory drag.

Serious fun has it consequences including changing the status quo.

We are all at the same life party. Find the door you can come through to make PRAXIS a full time act of creativity .

jim fouratt