DISCS AND TAPES
Whereas
long-playing records correspond,
In
the outer darkness of their stylus naturalism,
To
a centrist political equivalent,
Video
tapes correspond, in the outer light
Of
their filmic subnaturalism,
To
a left-wing political equivalent,
Whilst
audio tapes correspond, in the inner darkness
Of
their intellectual antinaturalism,
To a right-wing political equivalent.
Hence
'liberal' albums,
'Social
democratic' video tapes,
And 'conservative' audio tapes.
But
as alternatives to these democratic media
Of
sound reproduction are the bureaucratic media
Of
outer-darkness singles,
Inner-darkness
tape recorders,
And
inner-light compact discs,
With
left-wing, centrist, and right-wing implications
Corresponding
to socialist, ecologist,
And
feminist positions that contrast (disc with tape
and tape with disc) to the democratic positions above,
As
though in a particle/wavicle antagonism
Between
hard and soft options,
Singles
naturalistically hard
Whereas
video tapes are subnaturalistically soft,
Tape
recorders anti-naturalistically soft
Whereas
LPs are naturalistically hard,
Compact
discs supernaturalistically hard
Whereas audio tapes are anti-naturalistically soft.