posted on May, 7 2008 @ 01:28 AM
This reminds me of an article i read by Joe Bargeant entitled "American Psychosis: The simulacrum Republic". The article argues that the mass media
was put in place by the government to control our minds, part of the article reads:
"Americans, rich and poor, now live in a culture entirely percieved through, simulacra- media images and illusions. We live inside a self-referential
media hologram of a nation that has not existed for some time now. Our nation is held together by a pale, carbon imprint of the original. The well off
with their upscale consumer aesthetic live inside gated disney-esque communities, with gleaming uninhabited front porches, representing some bucolic
notion of the great American home and Family. The working class true to its sports culture aesthetics, is a spectator to politics....politics which
are so entirely imagistic as to be holograms of a process, not a process. Social Realism is a television commercial for America, a simulcran republic
of eagles, church spires, brave young soldiers and heroic firefighters and "freedom of choice" within the hologram. Americas citizens have been
reduced to Balkanized consumer units by the corporate states culture producing machinery. We no longer have a country, just a hollow shell of one, a
global corporation masquerading electronically and digitally as a nation called the United States. The corporation now animates us from within our
very selves through management of the need hierachy in goods and information. Sure there is flesh within the machine, but it's animating force is a
viral concept, a meme run amok...Free market capitalism."
I never realised until I read the entire article how much time I wasted glued to the TV...taking in all the advertisments commanding me to consume. No
money in the bank account? well then get a credit card and run up some debt just to make you more reliant on the machine. Somewhere along the line our
reality got obscured, we no longer care about what is happening in the world so long as we make it home by 8 O'clock to catch Big Brother. Images,
words and movies all mould how we percieve ourselves and our world. Free thought is no-longer acceptable in society... in order to fit in one must
conform to the will of the masses...the will to consume without question, the desire to improve your own life in spite of others.