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Feb. 16., 2010 | 05:22 pm
University College Toronto Drama professor Antje Budde observed/studied the Obama campaign as it went:
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Entertaining couch potatoes - FEELING politics
Recently Barrack Obama, US presidential hopeful, delivered a speech at the crowded 800 seat Opera House in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Another 500 people were standing in the cold, following the spectacle from there by listening to loudspeakers. This way the show inside the theatre turned into a live radio play outside. Yet, its quality was quite different from "cool" interactive radio experiments such as Bertold Brecht's [in 1927]. [...] Obama's show emotionally moved the audience. Thus the audience was comforted in its complacency. The messages were delivered and passively/hotly consumed like a political fastfood snack.
The mandate of the Opera House in the small town of Lebanon states that it "presents live performances that inspire, educate and entertain". Obama, the performer on stage, responded to the assertion by his rival H. Clinton that "he was an impractical idealist peddling false hopes". He countered this by stating that there are people (like Clinton) who think more about restraints rather than about limitless possibilities. He suggested that hope is something inside us that insists even in the face of contradictory challenges. Change is possible*. One of the audience members, a journalist from Toronto Star, published his performance review - so to speak - soon after. He noticed that Obama is a gifted orator, while Clinton would rather enumerate policy prescriptions. This is considered to be boring. Obama's verbal skills apparently left the audience in stunned silence. However, the journalist/witness/audience member admits: "Within minutes, I couldn't recall a single word he had said, and the speech dissolved into pure feeling, which stayed with me for days."
People don't need drugs anymore. They can get stoned/somnambule at simply listening to Dr. Caligari-like politicians.
*words change, hope, possibilities - underlined.
Title:
Entertaining couch potatoes - FEELING politics
Recently Barrack Obama, US presidential hopeful, delivered a speech at the crowded 800 seat Opera House in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Another 500 people were standing in the cold, following the spectacle from there by listening to loudspeakers. This way the show inside the theatre turned into a live radio play outside. Yet, its quality was quite different from "cool" interactive radio experiments such as Bertold Brecht's [in 1927]. [...] Obama's show emotionally moved the audience. Thus the audience was comforted in its complacency. The messages were delivered and passively/hotly consumed like a political fastfood snack.
The mandate of the Opera House in the small town of Lebanon states that it "presents live performances that inspire, educate and entertain". Obama, the performer on stage, responded to the assertion by his rival H. Clinton that "he was an impractical idealist peddling false hopes". He countered this by stating that there are people (like Clinton) who think more about restraints rather than about limitless possibilities. He suggested that hope is something inside us that insists even in the face of contradictory challenges. Change is possible*. One of the audience members, a journalist from Toronto Star, published his performance review - so to speak - soon after. He noticed that Obama is a gifted orator, while Clinton would rather enumerate policy prescriptions. This is considered to be boring. Obama's verbal skills apparently left the audience in stunned silence. However, the journalist/witness/audience member admits: "Within minutes, I couldn't recall a single word he had said, and the speech dissolved into pure feeling, which stayed with me for days."
People don't need drugs anymore. They can get stoned/somnambule at simply listening to Dr. Caligari-like politicians.
*words change, hope, possibilities - underlined.
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date: Feb. 16., 2010 - 06:51 pm
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