Art of the Gnostic Gospels
Newt World Order?
#20 of 20 from the Yaldabaoth’s Witnesses postcard set
I have here depicted Newt Gingrich, one-time spokesman for the American Right, wearing an "empathy simulator," a device used to scare teenage boys into abstinence.
Mr. Gingrich, a proponent of "family values" who divorced his wife (hospitalized with cancer at the time) so that he could pursue an affair with a female staffer, is unmoved by the "empathy simulator" - indeed, he is shown laughing at the antics of Tupac Shakur, a former gang member and ghetto poet who was alive at the time of this postcard’s creation.
In the picture, Tupac pleads with Mr. Gingrich to empathize with his own "Thug Life" as WWII-era American concentration camp detainees (shown here in a camp in Japan) loom ominously in the background.
At the time Mr. Gingrich was elected, by the way, a full 61% of the electorate stayed home and chose not vote - thus ushering in a (mercifully brief) "Newt World Order."
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