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It's the hypocrasy.
Americans are hooked on the Looking Good Game. So hooked, in fact, that our culture values have been hijacked first by religion and now by corporations (not that much different than religion).
We live on slogans and soundbites. We think we are informed. We think we are smart. We think we are independent actors on the stage of life. We are an entire culture of Stepford Consumers.
Here's the really, really bad news. There is no conspiracy. There aren't a handful of men sitting in a room someplace pulling all the strings. There are a few very powerful people and organizations, sure, but not a network of people and groups intending to control the world.
It is the result of an economic system that grew legs a hundred years ago. And it is still growing, like a cancer.
One of the evil concepts developed by this cancer is "corporate peresonhood." Under this concept, corporations are granted the same rights as citizens. Freedom of speech (advertising) being chief amoung them.
Stop buying. Take on the biggest bullies on the block -- currently Microsoft and the Entertainment industry. Stop buying. No movies or CDs for a month. No microsoft product forever.
Write you representatives and senators. Work for candidates who believe in the rights of PEOPLE and who won't sell out.
Get the wool out of your eyes.
On the other hand. If you don't mind the restrictions, ask your politicians to call the shovel a shovel and not a slogan like "The PATRIOT Act."
Americans are hooked on the Looking Good Game. So hooked, in fact, that our culture values have been hijacked first by religion and now by corporations (not that much different than religion).
We live on slogans and soundbites. We think we are informed. We think we are smart. We think we are independent actors on the stage of life. We are an entire culture of Stepford Consumers.
Here's the really, really bad news. There is no conspiracy. There aren't a handful of men sitting in a room someplace pulling all the strings. There are a few very powerful people and organizations, sure, but not a network of people and groups intending to control the world.
It is the result of an economic system that grew legs a hundred years ago. And it is still growing, like a cancer.
One of the evil concepts developed by this cancer is "corporate peresonhood." Under this concept, corporations are granted the same rights as citizens. Freedom of speech (advertising) being chief amoung them.
Stop buying. Take on the biggest bullies on the block -- currently Microsoft and the Entertainment industry. Stop buying. No movies or CDs for a month. No microsoft product forever.
Write you representatives and senators. Work for candidates who believe in the rights of PEOPLE and who won't sell out.
Get the wool out of your eyes.
On the other hand. If you don't mind the restrictions, ask your politicians to call the shovel a shovel and not a slogan like "The PATRIOT Act."