{"id":14528,"date":"2016-11-13T17:57:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T17:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=14528"},"modified":"2016-11-13T18:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T18:04:38","slug":"life-and-island-times-age-of-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-and-island-times-age-of-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and Island Times:  Age of Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marlow&#8217;s Coastal Empire<\/p>\n<p>Election 2016 seems to have boiled down to who could encapsulate his\/her message to the general public in vignettes as entertaining, as compelling with clearly dramatic highs and lows, and as briefly as possible. Once again, effective self-storytelling and self-selling were about the characters and not the story, policy substance, truth or reality. It was all about the more likable voice.<\/p>\n<p>It came down to choosing between these opposites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arousal or Factual<\/li>\n<li>Concise vs Precise<\/li>\n<li>Snakes on a Plane vs New Yorker urbane<\/li>\n<li>Incite vs Insight<\/li>\n<li>Memes vs Themes<\/li>\n<li>Fruit vs Veggies<\/li>\n<li>Popular vs Accurate<\/li>\n<li>Motivate vs Educate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now choose your candidate.<br \/>\nSame as it ever was.<br \/>\nNow that it is decided, this is how it looks and feels to me as Election 2016 recedes in my rear view mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Santas and Robinhoods promised to do what they can<br \/>\nJobs, meals and help for their fellow man<br \/>\nFive days post-election, winners workin&#8217; on a plan<br \/>\nTo give us more vacation time to get a oranger tan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deplorables voted for a few crusts of bread<br \/>\nLoser still wonderin&#8217; what the voters meant and said<br \/>\nVoters were searchin&#8217; for what they could not find<br \/>\nCandidates unsuccessfully tried to read our minds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One tried hard to keep it real<br \/>\nCouldn&#8217;t shake her email deal<br \/>\nThe other, a master of the art of the deal<br \/>\nGot exposed as a jerk tryin&#8217; to cop a feel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People now are riotin&#8217; in the street<br \/>\nNot accepting their candidate&#8217;s defeat<br \/>\nTrue believers battlin cops in midnight heat<br \/>\nWhile homeless still shiver without a blanket or a sheet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Was this just sixty second amusement park ride<br \/>\nTent show&#8217;s now over, cable news ratings gonna slide<br \/>\nAppointee hopefuls are hoping to walk down the aisle<br \/>\nWhile president-elect glares at news media pool&#8217;s crocodiles<br \/>\nNew world leader gonna govern as a Twitter-o-phile<br \/>\nWill the Bill of Rights mean shit in this age of style<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/111316-LIT.jpg\" alt=\"111316-lit\" width=\"306\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/111316-LIT.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/111316-LIT-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><br \/>\nOnce again in 2016, Santa got the better of Robinhood<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2016 From My Isle Seat<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlow&#8217;s Coastal Empire Election 2016 seems to have boiled down to who could encapsulate his\/her message to the general public in vignettes as entertaining, as compelling with clearly dramatic highs and lows, and as briefly as possible. 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