Re: (OT) REJECTING MASS MEDIA CULTURE (Was Re: Epic Octatrack Performance Sampler Teaser....

["Andy Owens" <andy@1800dialword.com>]

Hey man ya'll all got it wrong, the sixties was all about gettin' laid 
with no terminal STDs!!!!

Andy Owens
1-800-AndyOwens
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So the typing might not be my best!


On Dec 20, 2010, at 7:18 PM, mark francombe <markfrancombe@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Well said Bob.. I almost feel like printing that out and standing in
> the streets handing it out!
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> Sent from my (advertisement removed)
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> On 21 Dec 2010, at 01:11, RP Collier <skeptikalist@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 20, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Paul Richards wrote:
>> 
>>> For a while, just a short while, a lot of things changed and it was a 
>really cool scene from many different perspectives.
>> 
>> 
>> And then the plutocrats, oligarchs, theocrats and authoritarian right 
>wingers flipped out -- they ramped up think tanks and consolidated media 
>to push legislative and judicial agendas, and effectively used 
>conservative talk radio to spread propaganda and disinformation -- 
>techniques developed in advertising and psy-ops to manipulate, control, 
>repress and suppress.
>> 
>> What you see now is the result of a very successful campaign to rewrite 
>history and skew its trajectory.
>> Reagan came into office and America's head went up its ass.
>> Forget about the environment, social justice and all the hippy pervert 
>commie stuff.
>> Greed is good, and be sure to embrace denial so that pesky facts don't 
>intrude on your dreams of power, domination and conservative orthodoxy 
>(morals and values).
>> Apparently, the oil baron Koch brothers spent almost $900 million 
>dollars just in 2009 to distort and muddy the messaging around the debate 
>about climate change issues.
>> Even basic things like the theory of evolution are smothered in caustic 
>claptrap and bullshit.
>> 
>> I would put the underlying message and impulse of the Sixties simply as 
>-- Live Gently.
>> Stop the raping and pillaging of the planet.
>> Live as a symbiont, instead of a host destroying parasite.
>> Become more aware of the interconnectedness of living systems and work 
>to reduce the suffering caused by our ignorant, overwhelming, and 
>short-sighted predation against the planet.
>> 
>> Nothing magical, just basic common sense -- you'd think, unless that 
>ability to think is impaired by sociopathic ideological toxic memes and 
>lousy education.
>> 
>> 
>> Pro-bonobo, peace groovy love etc. etc.
>> 
>> cheers
>> 
>> 
>> BobC
>> 
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