{"id":28863,"date":"2013-10-16T17:39:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=28863"},"modified":"2013-10-16T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:41:45","slug":"concerning-four-flags-and-two-tees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=28863","title":{"rendered":"Concerning four flags and two tees"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — a brief meditation on word and image ]
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Flags have been in the news quite a bit recently. There were the Marine Corps and Confederate flags carried by the protester outside the White House<\/a> in the upper panel below:<\/p>\n

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and the flag some protesting Native American (Lakota<\/a>?) grandmothers took from the white supremacists who hoped to establish a community of the like-minded in the tiny town of Leith, North Dakota — in what one account called an improv \u201cgame\u201d of \u201ccapture the flag\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So that’s two protests, right there. But the title of this post suggests it will concern “four flags and two tees” — and thus far I have mentioned three flags. The fourth is the flag worn as a tee-shirt decoration by one of the Grandmothers, and as shown below (upper panel) it is in fact the flag of the American Indian Movement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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while by way of contrast, the tee worn by the confederate-and-marine-flags chap is a logo rather than a flag — it’s a Southern Thread Men’s Special Deluxe Art Tee<\/a> to be exact. As the ad says:<\/p>\n

Alone or under a snap front shirt or a button down, you can show your southern roots or the vintage inspired western look.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My mind is a side-winder, as you know, so all this thinking about flags and logos got me thinking too about the Logos <\/strong>(or Word of God) and his standard. <\/p>\n

When the Emperor Constantine<\/strong>, for better or worse, co-opted Christianity or converted to it or both, his battle cry in hoc signo vinces<\/em> (or in this sign you will conquer<\/em> in late Barbarian, in case that’s your maternal tongue) raised the chi-rho<\/em> as the sign, ensign, or battle flag — the logo <\/em>if you will — of the newly baptised Roman Empire. The chi-rho<\/em> — ☧ — combining the first two letters of the Greek word Christos<\/em>, and meaning the Anointed One<\/em>.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Flags and mottos are consequential things. Which comes first: the image, or the word?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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