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The world's in breathless, united apparition. So many are once again, many for the first time, proud to be an American. Ghettos and cul-de-sacs and streets are canvassed in exhilarated celebration. Faith, that eternally puissant soul power, has been rousingly and poetically restored, reclaiming its rightful place alongside the Will of Man. For most of us, black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Gen-X, Gen-Y, azure, iridescent, as Andy put it, the 2008 presidential election is the most influential thing we've done so far in our lifetime outside of buying and consuming. For me, it was more a sense of suspended, cathartic relief, soon replaced by an endowing determination for tomorrow's horizon. The celebration ended as soon as Barack stepped resolutely to the podium for our victory speech. We're living history, now it's about Time we make it. This mission which lies ahead, this consummation, will be the most trying struggle of all.

I'm keeping this blog short. We have poured the wine, now let us take a moment to celebrate. But, let us not get wine-flushed and forget in our basking that this is merely the first step of this emancipating journey. Secondly, don't disillusion the significance of this moment by investing your entire, unquestioned faith into Barack. By doing this, you're robbing, degrading and rendering illegitimate this beautiful moment, the man himself, and what we have all yearned and worked for. Don't lose the strength of your own resolve in the lingering romanticism of Barack. More than anything, Barack is the symbol, the enabler we needed to press ahead in this journey. But, moving forward he will need our enduring resolve as much as we'll need his. We finally received the opportunity for a true democracy, one that is a dynamic, not a dictatorship. Now it's our responsibility to uphold our end of the birdsong.

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John McCain is just another political product of the postmodern hegemonic regime. To change, we must embrace change, for all its uncertainty, but more importantly, for all its potential. I'm currently residing in Montreal, Quebec, and even here, the sense of desperation and opportunity that this election entails is just as visceral. This moment, now, is not only American, it is a universal moment.

SUPER TUESDAY, in motion toward a metaphorical Pangea.

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With the privatization of American governmental politic, the government is merely an accessory, a cloak for a greater concern. A scapegoat device the hegemony uses to shield itself. The most stressing matter is the conglomerate, but more specifically, those of mass media.

As art is the harbinger of social-constructional change -art essentially being human expression- mass media, which captures and transmits this expression, is therefore the primary influence of mass culture. It is the prime means for the hegemony to maintain its control, and the primary channel we need to focus on for change to truly occur.

As the presidential election process commences, all I ask is for the eventual leader of our fragile country to have the heart of America in mind. Please.

...right wing -- left wing... just trying find my wings.