Re: Lolita
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 13:18:00 +1100
I have to clarify something here - Australia as an artistic nation is ever
growing. We have, in my opinion, some of the greatest artists in all fields
- Peter Carey, Tim Winton, not to mention your Cate Blanchetts and Geoffrey
Rushes. There is an absolute interest in culture here which may amaze
Scottie (: . However, we are currently saddled with a hideous economic
rationalist government (Liberal, sort of the equivalent of Republican in
America) who is determined to send Australia back to 1954 and who has cut
funding to arts all over the place. Exacerbated by the fact that our
previous prime minister was a real visionary and artistic type who was
going to take Australia into the 21st Century. All of the causes which were
raised then - Aboriginal reconciliation, becoming a republic - all have
backslid horribly. It's so depressing my parents have even mooted the idea
of emigration.
The Lolita issue, however wouldn't have been picked up upon, even by the
conservatives, had they not had to get this independent (whose past credits
include banning sex on TV, movies and ... basically everywhere) on their
side to vote on whether or not they're going to privatise our
communications systems. It's 110% political; everyone knows it. I just hope
they don't get their way with Lolita.
P.S. we have a religious right here but it's nothing near as bad as in your
country.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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> Camille --
>
> That is a disgusting and revolting and sad development in your land,
truly.
>
> But you still have Peter Carey, right? We have the literary lions ... uh
..
> Brett Easton Ellis and ... uh ... Jerry Springer. I can feel myself
growing
> stupider by the nanosecond. I'm drowning in trash! I wish we had a
dingo or
> 3 million to steal some of this white trash. Don't they, like ... thin
out the
> carrion or something? (By the by, and to wit, we have our own fascists:
the
> religious right. What a wanker collective they turned out to be.)
>
> rick