Archive for April, 2009
Monday, April 13th, 2009
A Cousinly Reminder
Big business marketing, as I explain in The Consumer Trap book, is neither more nor less than the adaption of the classic methods of class-struggle-from-above to the purpose of manipulating the off-the-job experiences and behaviors of so-called “consumers.”
As such, the main tactics are threats, false promises, mindfucks (information shifts), and lies/propaganda.
This explains why so many of the world’s most important political shibboleths are essentially aggressive marketing campaigns.
One particularly momentous example is debunked in this new work by historian Shlomo Sand. Check it out.
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
The Gatekeeper Problem
In his new book, The Medea Hypothesis, archeologist Peter Ward points out that life can sometimes not only become its own worst enemy, but homo sapiens is now quite obviously acting as the epitome of this “Medea principle,” wildly wrecking its own biological pre-conditions.
At one point, while reviewing “deep ecology” and its argument in favor of preserving as much still-pristine natural habitat as possible, Ward asks:
Who could argue with that sentiment? Conserve. Who besides those beholden to business interests could argue with that one?
But there’s the rub, isn’t it? Not only is our market-totalitarian overclass utterly opposed to the eco-social policies required for progressive human survival and avoidance of another planetary Medean catastrophe, but isn’t the real question which person who resides within a country mile of the levers of power is NOT beholden to business interests?
If we don’t change that arrangement very, very soon, Medea is going to finish cooking our last supper.
Louis Tully, CPA, CKM
Alas, our current Chief Executive, despite election-time product packaging promising the contrary, is revealing himself to be yet another enthralled Keymaster laboring and blocking pitchforks for our still well-entrenched parasitical hyper-Medean extractor class…
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Hope: Not All Lost
I recently bagged on ordinary Americans for continuing to host reigning claims about class mobility.
Turns out we’re not entirely under water…
Pretty remarkable and inspiring stuff, given the extraordinarily shitty sources of information and context that dominate our eyeballs and eardrums.
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Obama’s True Constituency
Michael J. Smith of SMBIVA caught the quote that reveals the truth about our new President’s understanding of his role.
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Keep This Staff!
If nothing else, this, corporate capitalism’s Third Great Depression, is tipping the overclass hand in some interesting ways.
The latest is this letter from the alleged overseer of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac rackets, in which we get to see how the executive faction of the investing class tries to justify the salary-based part of its immoral and egregiously outdated appropriation of society’s surplus wealth.
Compare and contrast what bosses say about ordinary employees and what this ass-clown writes about paying $159 million in bonuses to the “managers” of a crashed enterprise:
“It is not realistic to expect that experienced and highly skilled employees wil indefinitely continue to work as hard as they have if we do not provide reasonable incentives to perform…
Meanwhile, here’s my idea of the only staff they ought to be keeping:
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Marketing Comic o’ the Day
From the marvelous Stephanie McMillan:
Dig the Obama spoof in the middle frame!
