Never start reading AdBusters magazine while simultaneously perusing Time's articles about how Bush is actually guaranteeing big Pharma's profits and higher Medicare costs, and at the same time start reading The Progress Paradox in conjunction with glancing through Michael Moore's Dude, Where's my Country? while occasionally glancing at Fast Food Nation.
Sounds like cynicism overload and it is. Ouch.
No shit. Very depressing...
Reading the Progress Paradox is more on the order of doing research to see if there's a way out of this trap.
They key to escaping the cesspool this wacky world is becoming is to use the rules of the world to achieve escape velocity, then live according to a better set of rules.
Something like that.
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More on AdBusters magazine.
A gift from fellow skepticist Tom Collins, it is so very 'now' with its graphics that it surprises me how, well, out there they really are. There's a thread of language throughout that's really a vocabulary I can only guess at. It's like reading notes from an intellectual psychotherapists convention.
Given this, I'm surprised at how much the recent issue has affected me. Certainly, it's falling on fertile ground. But that's like saying you're trying to plant seeds on mars. It's an alien environment when their words and images come into contact with my brain.
And something is sprouting...
Posted by BilFish at July 1, 2004 07:04 AM