Does the KoolAid Ever Wear Off?: October 2005

Just wondering how this is going....

Lawrence Lessig Remix Artist Statement

Sean Watkins
Lawrence Lessig Free Culture Remix Project
Commodification of Culture
October 18, 2005
Artist’s Statement


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The last time. It’s going to happen some day. I know it. The last time the rage flares at something absolutely outrageous or unfair, something so against humanity and society, something so anti-common sense that it finally just wins and dumps me on the street as I run chasing after the perpetrators. The last time I muster the resolve to engage the simalucrum. The last time I am finessed into believing the commodity.

However, I continue to rail. Creating a symbol of outrage, reducing the polemic to a few strokes; a few frames of a cartoon, I can try and clearly state the not-so-obvious to a purposely confused audience. As strongly as I spit, the wind howls against me. As I feel the rage, the outrage fights back with its powerful countenance. As long as someone is looking, Goliath, always Goliath, surrealistically defends his selfishness and greed against the little guy who strikes back and owns the sympathetic cry from the maw of Wal-Mart.

The destruction of the people by the not-so-people, in the name of getting mine. It is here that the image is returned to you, although temporarily. As long as the shroud is torn once in a while, the black, sour, angry, foolish, evil scowling face must retreat and spin, accuse and deny, twist and blather, until someone, in the dead of night, wipes the clarity from the fog. It is time to begin again.

Wal-Mart is open.