“The cultural embrace of illusion, and the celebrity culture that has risen up around it, have accompanied a growing system of casino capitalism, with its complicated and unregulated deals of turning debt into magical assets, to create fictional wealth for us, and vast wealth for our elite. Corporations, behind the smoke screen, have ruthlessly dismantled and destroyed our manufacturing base and impoverished our working class. The free market became our god and government was taken hostage by corporations, the same corporations that entice us daily with illusions through the mass media, the entertainment industry, and popular culture.”Read More...
Yes, celebrity culture. An elaborate smokescreen to keep people occupied, while all the ridiculous laws get fast-tracked through parliament.
ReplyDeleteImagine a person having an argument with me online over 'Lady Gaga'. Like she really gives a rat's ass about them. She is just another pawn in a game, for now, until she gets boring. It's the same old drill. Of course she's the new flavour of the year to keep the brain dead occupied.
*YAWN*