{"id":3625,"date":"2010-12-04T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T19:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2010-12-04T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T19:09:57","slug":"a-brief-fugue-on-the-graphics-of-coexistence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3625","title":{"rendered":"A brief fugue on the graphics of coexistence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong><br \/>\n[ cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/18000.html\">ChicagoBoyz<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>A great many people will have seen (or designed) some variant of the &#8220;coexist&#8221; bumper-sticker \/ tee-shirt design:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Coexist.jpg\" alt=\"Coexist\" width=\"303\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; the first of which can be found on <em>acsapple<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/s568.photobucket.com\/albums\/ss129\/acsapple\/?action=view&amp;current=coexist.png&amp;newest=1\">photobucket<\/a> &#8212; and hey, the &#8220;aum&#8221; sign for &#8220;oe&#8221; is a brilliant bit of graphic substitution! \u2013 while I nabbed the second <a href=\"http:\/\/candidchatter.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/19\/what-does-it-mean-to-you\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What with a thousand flowers blooming, the importance of preserving memetic variations, peaceful coexistence and all, it&#8217;s only natural that some will have different takes on the matter &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/coexist-variants.jpg\" alt=\"coexist variants\" width=\"298\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; the first of these comes from the blog of <a href=\"http:\/\/massbackwards.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/her-brother-held-her-down.html\">a gun-toting political refugee from the People&#8217;s Progressive Republic of Massachusetts<\/a>, while the second is a tee-shirt design by Matt Lussier, and you can get your tee-shirt <a href=\"http:\/\/teecraze.com\/?p=11962\">here<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>As for myself, I have fond memories of India, and was accordingly heartened to see this on an <a href=\"http:\/\/twocircles.net\/2010may09\/unity_circle.html\">Indian Muslim site<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/india-calling-religious-unity.jpg\" alt=\"india calling-religious unity\" width=\"296\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n<p>which is what set me thinking about &#8220;coexistence&#8221; graphics in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Did I ever tell you about the sign I saw over a shop in Delhi, advertising the sale of <strong>mythelated spirits<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>I frequently feel just a tad <strong>mythelated<\/strong> myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Cameron [ cross-posted from ChicagoBoyz ] A great many people will have seen (or designed) some variant of the &#8220;coexist&#8221; bumper-sticker \/ tee-shirt design: &#8212; the first of which can be found on acsapple&#8216;s photobucket &#8212; and hey, the &#8220;aum&#8221; sign for &#8220;oe&#8221; is a brilliant bit of graphic substitution! \u2013 while I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,191,384,526,50,497,215,25,560,23,394,480,501,423,473,472,533,383,31,523,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analogy","category-anthropology","category-art","category-charles-cameron","category-chicago-boyz","category-christianity","category-culture","category-horizontal-thinking","category-india","category-insight","category-meme","category-music","category-myth","category-presentation-zen","category-propaganda","category-public-diplomacy","category-religion","category-symmetry","category-synthesis","category-theology","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}