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Fighting Domestic Terrorism: Art's Role In Social Activism, Jonathan Cornell
Fighting Domestic Terrorism: Art's Role In Social Activism, Jonathan Cornell
Graduate School of Art Theses
Abstract
Through a study into the complex web of Church and State, I describe how the American condition falters under a Capitalist regime. Throughout this thesis, I identify incongruences within pervading socio-political tropes. By dissections of religion and culture, I identify how the American people are subjugated by their own ideologies, thereby perpetuating a cycle of class struggle and social injustice. I assert that the American hero has failed in the face of material desire and blind faith to a ruling plutocracy, and that organized religion has been ultimately subsumed by politics as a tool of control. Using the visual …