Glamour Is Myth

Noor’s exhibition “Glamour Is Myth” began as a simple message intended to provoke thought about the act of smoking. Glamour Is Myth was never really intended as an anti-smoking vehicle despite the anti-smoking moniker. Instead, Glamour Is Myth was really designed as a voice of provocation, intended only to provoke enough thought for an individual to make an informed choice of whether to smoke or not. When Noor first embarked upon the presentation of this exhibition in 1989 we could not have anticipated that the anti-smoking movement would have gone so far. Nor could we have known that it would have been propelled along by the seemingly fascist laced machinations that would essentially function to brainwash a country into submission of a philosophy. Admittedly the philosophies behind the anti-smoking movement are noble at core, but once that core has been tampered with and outfitted with a propaganda steamroller assigned the task of bringing everyone into submission then you end up with an animal infinitely more dangerous to society than tobacco could ever become. That animal is the cultivation of “group think”, which is an indispensible tenet of Fascism. Ostensibly when the word “Fascist” is used the listener conjures up images of Doc Martens, brown shirts and mass graves. The fundamentals of fascist thinking are infinitely more subtle in its workings and at its nucleus. Fascism is principally interested in cultivating uniformity among the masses and is at the core dictatorial. In fact, Noor would gamble to say that the brown shirt imagery is a friend to subjugation in that it serves as a functional distraction so that fascist propaganda can move forward largely unimpeded and un-resisted by the masses that remain largely ignorant ...

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...ave been successful. This same person would and has vehemently denied that there is anything remotely fascist in the anti-smoking movement or the manner in which it has been conducted. This is archetype behavior of individuals not wishing to confront or be confronted with the possibility that they’ve not understood how the cultural mass of which we are all a part, has been led down a path and sold a bill of goods that are not necessarily good. The inherent insidiousness of this is found in the blindness that is a byproduct of the zealous actions of the would be altruistic who lacks a basic understanding of the domino effect that once set into motion will ultimately turn back and demand the sacrifice of rights that these same zealots assume to be unquestionably theirs. In the final analysis one has to ask if perhaps we’ve just had smoke blown in our collective faces.