The Dominant Ear It is often said that we live in the empire of images. While in the beginning was the word, it is believed that in our final hour the flesh has become image. The occident on which night has fallen is lit by flickering signposts that guide our stumbling sight through the labyrinth of speed. It is believed that in this dreamland, reason can no longer write its name and has become a PIN code. Uprooted metamorphoses herald our downfall while we watch, dumbfounded and fascinated by its sheer visual beauty.
Involvement has zero force in the mediacracy.
So power runs no risk, and is hard for the stupefied senses to locate. The above specter, as propagated by cultural conservationists, is meant to avert the threatening decline of literacy by restraining visual consumption. The bourgeois character, who turned out immune to fascism and communism and is doing so well materially, is feared to collapse under the internal assault of zappable impressions in the third dictatorship of images. This specter has an audio equivalent. The ear is believed to have been dismembered and surrendered to the senseless but excessive noise of trail bikes, fighter jets, loudspeakers, chainsaws, dogs, factory floors, cloudbursts, carnivals, loading zones and parties.