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Beautifully put. Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Peace G > From: skeptikalist@gmail.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: Re: (OT) REJECTING MASS MEDIA CULTURE (Was Re: Epic Octatrack Performance Sampler Teaser.... > Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:10:54 -0800 > > > 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 > |