I see Che-tees everywhere now. Mostly on poor illiterate/ignorant immigrents but not so infrequently on beatnick-types.
The "heroic" visage of Che appears to have a primal ressonace, something far beyond rational thinking or debate over just governace. The Romans were the first to capitalize on this "imagery-over substance" phenomena in the human animal. Its very powerful, and as the Che-phenomena shows, is far from being vetted out of the human genome.
Who was Che? Well, his story is as old as the sun. A guy who had it all figured out in his teens. He sold-out to communism as a teenager, because, well...he had it allll figured out. The world was X and the solution was Y. Throw in his medical studies as a teenager, and wow, you have the makings of a hero.
Communism and Socialism rely heavely on symbolism. Who can forget the heroci Lenin and Stalin pictures and statues that are still being torn down. Stalin understood the power of this symbolism over the herd...
2007-02-25
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