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| Maryland Juice in Dusseldorf, Germany |
BACKGROUND: In case you couldn't tell, this week activists on both sides of the marriage equality debate started to throwdown for a showdown on the issue. Sorry for the erratic posting schedule this past week -- Maryland Juice has been lobbing bombs from across the Atlantic Ocean. The conservative bloggers at Red Maryland, for what it's worth, are now
trying to make a punching bag out of me for calling out hypocrisy from public figures.
Gee thanks.
ANYWAY -- now I'm back in the U.S. of A, and I have a lot to report back from my trip to Germany and the Netherlands --
starting with another meditation on subversive art. My second to last entry on subversive art was
a dispatch from Seattle's EMP museum, which was designed by iconic architecht Frank Gehry.
This week, I stumbled upon yet another set of Frank Gehry-designed buildings -- but this time in Dusseldorf, Germany. My visit to Dusseldorf was completely by accident -- but as luck would have it, the experience provided me with multiple new insights about Maryland politics and the DC metro economy that I will share below.
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| Three new Frank Gehry designed buildings are revitalizing Dusseldorf, Germany |
After submersing myself in EU news and policy perspectives again, I have two main points:
- By looking at the policy contrasts with European economies, it continues to appear that U.S. policymakers have been brainwashed by the Chambers of Commerce, and
- I continue to believe that subversive art can have a huge role in priming the public consciousness in positive ways.
