Google says that Amazon says that the Getty Museum supports this UNESCO site and has a book about it. Maybe the sodomy is in there. I distinctly remember, from a long time back, that Instant Access to All World Knowledge was one of the human desiderata. I know for sure it's on the Science Made Stupid checklist. What happened? We have it, right now, and about 200 lawyers, worldwide, have decided to frame the argument such that we can't use it. You know this wasn't Metallica's idea, or any of the other artists who have been persuaded to shill against their own popularity. If you had broken into their dressing room and said: "Dude! Bro! Tomorrow morning, every teenage boy in the ENTIRE WORLD is going to wake up listening to Metallica!" they would have been all, "RIGHT ON DUDE! BRO!" But that wasn't how the argument was framed.
A lot of it depends on who gets there first. Many of these debates don't have an intrinsic polarity, any more than water intrinsically swirls one way or the other down a toilet. The tiniest little impulse gets it going, and then the drainage is established by game and traffic. Recall the recent "controversy" about the translation of the Star Spangled Banner into other languages. How many of you knew that was an issue, before you were told? It certainly doesn't have the visceral traction of flag burning, or cross burning (how's that for the same thing from "opposite" sides of the "spectrum"?). Suppose that the first voice heard on the radio commenting about la bandera estrellada had been Noam Chomsky and he was all about how American cultural imperialism was running roughshod over the rights of the Zapatistas and the Iraqi Resistance Forces to invent their indigenous governing ideals free from American interference? You can bet that Rush Limbaugh would have been all "Cancel My Rhumba Lesson, we're translating the Star Spangled Banner into Algonquin". Bush would have been singing the anthem in Spanish at rallies. Actually, he did that, according to page 142 of "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush" by Kevin Phillips.
