Many of us here would like to secede from southern Arizona and create a state called Baja Arizona. Twenty years ago, I was neck deep fighting a war with the powers that be to keep the incorporation of our Town of Tortolita. This nationalism is nothing new. We all like our “right” to self-determination. The world is increasingly being corporatized, homogenized with gigantic blankets of various types of power. Because it is getting so obvious the pitchforks are beginning to come out, even though, in this country, the corporate owned media hides it. This attitude was what motivated the Bernie uprising. In spite of the entire corporate media in this country giving him a total of only seconds in the context of challenging the presumptive candidate of the party and ignoring all of his issues, his message made it to the debates, but it was too late. This was a factor in Trump’s campaign strategy, to dupe the pitchfork holders, which many now, who voted for him, are seeing his picks as the bankster and corporate fusion of classic Mussolini fascism, in horror. He just got into office with a 32% approval rating (lowest in history) and the protesters Saturday outnumbered the inauguration attendees 3 to 1. Yea, yea, and we cannot forget Hilary, who stole her rhetoric from Bernie in obvious desperation to dupe people, just like Trump.
There will always be 30% that will support the president Trump no matter what he does, just as there will always be 35% that will support a new war. The key for the president and the oligarchy is to get another 16% to go along with his, or their plans. That is what media consolidation is about.
There is a great deal of anger and outrage particularly in this country. I have had several friends of social media and privately in the flesh, discuss getting their guns out. I haven’t heard stuff like this since the late 60’s. There were millions of women, not to mention the men, taking to the streets last Saturday, many for the first time, all around the world. I thought it poignant when the only reportage of the issues discussed by the women’s March on Fox news, of 4 hours of intelligent and important speaking, was one line put out by Madonna. “Yes, I’ve been giving some thought to blowing up the White House, Too.” They meant to use it to demean and dismiss the massive march, but it opened the veil. She said the thing that everybody is afraid to say. They are that pissed, patriotic and outraged to commonly think these thoughts of violence. It is natural and common. I would imagine that the same thing is happening in social media on the other side among the 32%. Violent thought and fantasy are nearly always a distance from action.
The vast majority of Hollywood has always been more liberal and with their cultural media platform, they get a strong voice, but not as strong as Trump’s, another Hollywood celebrity, obviously. They often lend their names and influence to causes, sometimes to promote themselves, sometimes it just comes with the territory that they are known and people give them leadership. There are many examples like Ronald Raygun, or Charlton Heston, or Arnold Swartzenigger. People associated with their past roles, with great, or strong, personalities, time and money and name recognition. These people that “backlash” on nudewalker’s social media probably weren’t great fans in the first place. Don’t get me wrong, even these celebrities have the right to speak out, first amendment-wise.
At times of frustration and outrage, comedy has been a good outlet to defuse and vent. Trump will receive a truck…no convoy load. Laughter will help to quell the timber of the revolutionary fervor. Alex Balwin will be a household name. That’s what people who don’t hike naked with relief will do.
Otherwise I kinda go along with what Bob says, “When celebs are on stage doing "in your face" sexuality then their naked sexual display hurts any association with nudism. When celebs are simply going naked at a free beach or nudist farm then photos of them going naked are helpful. Like anything else it’s all about context. “
It has been too wet and cold to hike naked, even here in the desert of Arizona. But, last Saturday in a really crappy rain and wind storm, DF got together with her women’s group and took a short hike with 15,000 other mostly women, in a place downtown where nobody dares go nude. Yep, this time they were bundled up, but DF and I have wandered the same place in brief underwear for another occasion. As things heat up, no telling what you might see in the streets, but you will definitely bee seeing things happening in the streets. Everything political and governmental in this country at this time is unprecedented and extreme. Currently, my hope is that the other issues will keep nudity a low priority, giving us some flex under the major issue's radar, while we work like moths in a cloak (to borrow from Kipling).
Jbee
