232 Anti Fundametalist Song

There’s a witch hunt coming, screaming out on it’s rebirth
There’s a crusade coming, Hellfires back here on earth
See the light in their eyes shine, listen to their words like swords
The Christian militia is marching now
There’s a witch hunt coming, born out of all the American fears
There’s a new purge coming, an inquisition for all of us here
Hold onto your sanity as best you can
While some Hitler claims to speak for the Son of Man
The Christian militia is marching now
Hatred makes the adrenaline flow
Stir up the fire watch it grow
Everybody loves a righteous cause
Old lives forgotten in holy wars
Everything forgotten in holy wars

There’s a nightmare coming, shut up your doors close your mind
There’s a nightmare coming – Born Again, born again blind
The girls show the way, then show us their legs
With American showbiz razzmatazz
With sex in one hand and a gun in the other, Christ returns
The right-wing respectable clampdown clan
Find their figure head in a holy man
Here come the Christians an hysterical mob
Worshipping the Devil in the name of God
Worshipping the Devil in the name of God

Christian Militia
by New Model Army

229 Social Evolution

Social evolution is a subdiscipline of evolutionary biology that is concerned with social behaviours, i.e. those that have fitness consequences for individuals other than the actor. Social behaviours can be categorized according to the fitness consequences they entail for the actor and recipient.

* Mutually beneficial – a behaviour that increases the direct fitness of both the actor and the recipient
* Selfish – a behaviour that increases the direct fitness of the actor, but the recipient suffers a loss
* Altruistic – a behaviour that increases the direct fitness of the recipient, but the actor suffers a loss
* Spiteful – a behaviour that decreases the direct fitness of both the actor and the recipient

Creating a social system is best relying on mutually beneficial factor, but it’s hardly work in any society in micro factor, only in some specific areas maybe. I never agree on Social Darwinism, a study of Herbert Spencer, which suggesting on the weak members of society can lead to the degeneration of a domestic race of the society. That theory is a selfish act, used by Hitler for holocaust propaganda. But I believe society evolve from time to time, it wants to reach the mutual benefactor, as long as humanists never prevail.

227 Creating A Society

Thank to Kemang Icon Arts for giving me an oppotunity to create some artworks as freely as I am. Of course for this chance I want to apply my sociology researchs, creating a society of my own will be a great experiment. This is a huge project to handle, creating ideologies, the society icons and the system as well. I am still in a great confusion in deciding what I will make, a little bit to the left or to the right. I, myself, am in the left side of ideology, as a socialist and a humanist, but I don’t want this project become a socially freak idea. So, I keep researching, damn sociology is confusingly interesting.

222 The Origin of The Word of Propaganda

Its first documented use occurred in 1622, when Pope Gregory XV established the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. At the time, in the wake of Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church was engaged in mostly unsuccessfully holy wars to reestablish the faith by the force of arms. Realizing that this was a losing effort, Pope Gregory established the papal propaganda office as a means of coordinating efforts to bring men and women to the “voluntary” acceptance of church doctrines. The word propaganda thus took on a negative connotation in Protestant countries but a positive one (similar to that of education or preaching) in Catholic areas.

The term propaganda did not see widespread use until the beginning of the twentieth century, when it was used to describe the persuasion tactics employed during World War I and those later used by totalitarian regimes. Propaganda was originally defined as the dissemination of biased ideas and opinions, often through the use of lies and deception. However, as scholars began to study the topic in more detail, many came to realize that propaganda was not the sole property of “evil” and totalitarian regimes and that it often consists of more than clever deceptions. The word propaganda has since evolved to mean mass “suggestion” or “influence” through the manipulation of symbols and the psychology of the individual. Propaganda involves the dexterous use of images, slogans, and symbols that play on our prejudices and emotions; it is the communication of a point of view with the ultimate goal of having the recipient of the appeal come to “voluntarily” accept this position as if it were his or her own.

Pratkanis, Anthony R., and Elliot Aronson. AGE OF PROPAGANDA, The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion. 1. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 2001. 11. Print.

216 Back On Research

These past periods of time have been busting my ass, but gave a lot of time to think, experiment, talk and argue. As time goes by, my interest in social science grows more. Thus I made up my mind on what I really need to research on my social science study that still related to visual communication design. It’s the technique that turned the world around in the opposite direction, it’s a weapon of mass persuasion since the old days of human life which rulers, religion, politicians, marketers, advertisers use to move the masses toward a desired position or point of view. Say hello to propaganda, the nasty word that soon we’ll understand inside and out.

196 Gears

I traveled back in time through 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s! To purchase these mighty cameras, instead of keep using my boring Nikon D70s. Who says these old camera is only for collection, I’m going to bring old school photography back to society.

191 Blugger Details

181 Blunny Details

165 L’Blochy Details

I’ve been thinking to re-shoot my toys for my web gallery so they all look nice and cozy. So I dumped all of the old photos here for showing all of the details. Should check the photos [here], some really nice and simple fashion photo shoot for the toys.

157 Fundamentalism vs. Evangelism

Fundamentalism & evangelicalism share the same conceptual base, except fundamentalism distorts & betrays the basic true religious concerns of evangelical. Instead finding the “warm, living gospel”, fundamentalism had become cold & hardened in its doctrines.

source: Conway, Flo, and Siegelman, Jim. Holy Terror, The Fundamentalist War on America’s Freedoms in Religion, Politics and Our Private Lives. 1st. USA: Doubleday, 1982. Print.

Does fundamentalism really preach about gospel of salvation for men? Or does it use the gospel as a weapon in an ideological conquest of men?