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RE: (OT) REJECTING MASS MEDIA CULTURE (Was Re: Epic OctatrackPerformance Sampler Teaser....



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
>