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A passage from Neal Stephenson/Stephen Bury's Interface I keep being reminded of:
"When high-definition television becomes the norm all of the politicians currently in power will be voted out of office and we will have a completely new power structure. Because high-definition television has a flat gamma curve and higher resolution, and people who look good on today's television will look bad on HDTV and voters will respond accordingly. Their oversized pores will be visible, the red veins in their noses from drinking too much, the artificiality of their TV-friendly hairdos will make them all look, on HDTV, like country-and-western singers. A new generation of politicians will take over and they will all look like movie stars, because HDTV will be a great deal like film, and movie stars know how to look good on film."
The speaker is pollster and election rigger Cy Ogle. And I can't help thinking this is one of the overlooked elements of the election; we're in the movies now, and the movies have strong, resolute, good-with-disaster black Presidents who are more handsome than ordinary men in an unshowy way.
That said Go Barack, obviously. |
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