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 Thursday, January 15, 2009

Walking Cultural Activism: A Personal Relationship

By Greg Perkins @ 3:12 PM

Tammy and I thought it would be great to produce a series of T-shirt designs for those occasions when it is appropriate to wear our ideas on our sleeves. Bonus points if they aren't just provocative but actually spark some good engagement!

Here's a design that offers a simple, wry response to the oddly-fashionable notion that Christianity isn't a religion (no sir, it's a relationship with Jesus): I have a personal relationship with reality.



You can't tell at that resolution, but the font sports a distressed typewriter look, and there is a subtle emphasis on the word 'reality'. Here's a closer look:



(Just click through to BoltOfReason.Com to check out all the available styles and colors. We of course love suggestions and requests -- we're already working on a lot of fun ideas, and if you are the first to hit us with a new one that we use in a future shirt design, you'll get one for free!)

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Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 16:14:16 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: Aaron Brown
E-mail: arundelo(at)hotmail.com
URL: http://arundelo.com/

I'm getting one!

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 17:22:27 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: Jim May
E-mail: seerak(at)gmail.com

Hi Greg,

I've had ideas about slogans that can spin off common ones used by the Left. They usually involve substituting freedom for their terms -- often "peace".

"No Justice, No Peace" = "No Freedom, No Peace" or "No Freedom, No Peace OR Justice"

"Imagine Freedom" = "Imagine Freedom"

"War is Not Moderate" = "Freedom is Not Moderate"

"Peace is Patriotic" = "Freedom is Patriotic"

Other adaptations:

"Got Freedom?"
"Will Work for Freedom"
"Celebrate Freedom"

The point of these is that I hardly ever seen the word "freedom" in Leftist propaganda -- likely for good reason. Even though most people have no idea what freedom is exactly, it's a good idea to push it back into people's consciousness. The Left counts on its absence to erode it without being called on it.

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 17:29:49 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: Jim May
E-mail: seerak(at)gmail.com

Another one just popped into my head:

"Left Wing, Right Wing, Same Vulture"

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 18:36:10 mst
Comment ID: #4
Name: Dan G.

Jim,

I've been doodling a cartoon to that effect with the caption, "Neither wing thank you, I'm American". The graphic is an eagle in Albanian style (two heads), with a sickle in one claw and a fasces with a cross on top in the other; with the two heads flustered and obviously fighting.

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 18:57:42 mst
Comment ID: #5
Name: Brian S

"There is [EXISTENCE] something [IDENTITY] I am aware of [CONSCIOUSNESS]"

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 19:32:01 mst
Comment ID: #6
Name: C Andrew
E-mail: ca4papen(at)mindspring.com

Jim, I think I'd buy that. Dan, I'd like to see yours. Could it work as a T-shirt graphic?
C andrew

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 20:35:56 mst
Comment ID: #7
Name: Dan G.

C Andrew,

I'm not sure if it would work. It would be quite a bit to take in just in passing. If it ever passes beyond the doodle stage, I'll share it.

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 22:05:24 mst
Comment ID: #8
Name: Andrew Dalton
E-mail: andrew.s.dalton(at)gmail.com
URL: http://witchdoctorrepellent.blogspot.com

Jim -

Interestingly, one word that you do see a lot in leftist propaganda is "liberation"--typically in some context that implies liberation from all standards, even from the law of identity.

Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 22:15:57 mst
Comment ID: #9
Name: William H Stoddard
E-mail: whswhs(at)mindspring.com
URL: http://whswhs.livejournal.com/profile

I've been saying for a few years that I have a close personal relationship with the first hundred integers. Though that's less a philosophical comment than a personal one on how my brain works.

Friday, January 16, 2009 at 9:22:29 mst
Comment ID: #10
Name: Kyle Haight
E-mail: khaight(at)alumni.ucsd.edu
URL: http://www.leftist.org/haightspeech

One occurred to me this morning: "How about trying *freedom* for a *change*?" Sort of a riff on the whole 'Obama/change/new ideas' thing that's floating around.

Friday, January 16, 2009 at 16:11:24 mst
Comment ID: #11
Name: Mike Hardy
E-mail: hardy(at)math.umn.edu

Just in case there's a shortage of idiocy on this comments page, I'll mention two tee shirts that I found entertaining, both warn by female students:

(1) Have you hugged this tee shirt today?

(2) Objects under this shirt are larger than they appear.

Here's a more intelligent one:

(3) Eve was framed.

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