them. the ones whose words you use when you think you're having an original thought:
'this observation is a cleverly placed advertisement.' or 'i am fundamentally absorbed in my own entitlement.'
look for all the product placement in this self-directed movie of your mediated life. how has consumerism shaped your 'self' and what you identify with?
to what degree do you think your rejection of this blatant system- to whatever degree you have rejected it- is actually in line with another group whose values or brand is more like 'you'?
experimentally, can you successfully separate yourself from all brands?
too much thinking too many words?
right, tell me about it.
you need to buy this movie more every day don't you?
there there. i've got some good news for you: the good folks at History is a Weapon have printed Edward Bernay's PROPAGANDA from 1928. bernays was one of the original titans and champions of public relations- this material is the pitch and the playbook used to make us into the flesh eating zombies [i mean good-hearted americans] that we have become today. i read this book and gave it away a few years ago:
Propaganda 1928, Bernays
History is a Weapon
my roomate saw me drinking a coke today & since i write about crap like this- in his mind- it just didn't compute.
see, i'm a flesh eating zombie like you.
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