by Art For A Change
Saturday, Oct. 13, 2001 at 10:58 AM
Thousands of angry protestors on the streets of Bangladesh and Jakarta have been photographed carrying posters showing a "heroic" Usama bin Laden, but the photo collage posters also bare another personality.... that of the Sesame Street Muppet, BERT.
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Thousands of angry protestors on the streets of Bangladesh and Jakarta have been photographed carrying posters showing a "heroic" Usama bin Laden, but the photo collage posters also bare another personality.... that of the Sesame Street Muppet, BERT.
This true and thoroughly bizarre story is a goldmine for media critics and analysts. Many of us living in the developed world realize that we are living a pre-packaged life of "media spectacle"... but THIS story should give everyone cause to pause.
How did Bert come to join the nefarious terrorist underground of Al Qaeda and turn his back on all things good and wholesome? The devil is in the details. The SITUATIONIST theory of all human experience being reduced to "mass spectacle" has never been more powerfully illustrated.
ART FOR A CHANGE
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