Gun control is not the answer. Culture control is the answer.
For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one company controlling their window to the world of culture and entertainment.
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.
The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
Artists can most definitely control the culture of fashion. Kids and different fans look up to us for dressing pointers.