Today I saw an advertisement for a bail bonds service called... wait for it... Free at Last Bail Bonds.
Was that the sound of the line being crossed?
In other news of tastelessness, I saw a woman wearing a white t-shirt with the following words printed across the front: Love is a battlefield.
We're doomed.
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"Free at Last Bail Bonds"...In a George Schuyler, Ralph Ellison, or Colin Whitehead novel: Social Commentary. In an advertisement: Crossed Line.
If "Love is a Battlefield," what does that make Iraq? Plato was right about banning the "poets."
Who thought Pat Benatar would *ever* be "kewl"?!
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Agreed on the line.
As for "Love is a Battlefield," I think we're here dealing with the "is" of predication, not identity. So not every battlefield instantiates love.
On Plato: did he advocated banning the "poets" or the poets. I favor banning both.
Brooks:
Who are you kidding!! Confess: you *loved* her when you were 13.
Spiros: I was being sly about the "poets." It's pretty clear that Plato targets the popular poets with banning. However, in Book X, Socrates requests twice for an argument that would allow them in some way, opening the door to positions that would allow, perhaps, his own artistic genre, and, as a number of my students have argued fairly persuasively, non-mimetic (and marginalized unpopular) forms of art that raise philosophical questions. I wouldn't want to write off a topic that Plato himself left open for debate.
If now is the time for confessions, then I confess to being a Linda Ronstadt fan --- not a Pat Benatar fan --- when I was 13.
Pat Benatar in those tight pants back in the day... hmmm love was a battlefield... in my pants when I was 11.
I think the line was crossed, when Martin Luther King Jr.'s estate allowed that speech to be used in a rap song for an educational series called "Flocabulary".
"Free at Last Bail Bonds" crossed the line about as much as "Martin Luther King Jr Day" was supposed to be a holiday of reflection on the civil rights struggle instead of an excuse for a Macy's white sale.
Spiros: I think the shirt that shows more doom than "Love Is a Battlefield" is one I saw on the Boulevard sported by rather surgically enhanced, gravity defying 40-something woman. The black, tight t-shirt had the following white text displayed at the proper level for maximum effect, "Yes, They Are Real!" It is one thing to quote a Pat Benatar song when making an advertisement about one's amourous exploits in a cheeky way, it is yet another thing to commit fraud in advertising.
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