February 5th, 2008
New to America? Visiting as a tourist? American citizen but geographically stunted? Allow me, fair reader, to shed some light on our fine country’s more dangerous minorities, including identifying information and how to avoid losing all of your bodily possessions should you encounter one. We’ve got plenty, but most are easily identified through their wardrobe choices and behavior.
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January 29th, 2008
If by some random chance you find yourself reading this, I will have to assume you have some idea of the identity of both Anonymous and Scientology. Because nobody reads this bullshit.
That said, I think this conflict represents something more than the sum of both groups. To understand this, you have to understand the whole of Anonymous’ actions. Continue »
January 20th, 2008
Throughout history, governments have sought to control their populations in pursuit of the one goal any government has: Maintaining power. Multiple theories have been put into practice over the course of time, and the overridingly successful one thus far has been population pacification through entertainment.
Rome had its prostitution houses and gladiator battles. India has the cheapest movie tickets in the world (with us following in second place) and up to 147 television sets per thousand people, despite only three people per thousand having vehicles and 35% of their population living below the poverty line
We’ve got lotteries, more TVs than we know what to do with, an entertainment industry cranking out enough content to keep the entire world numb, and a mass media industry working in lock-step with the government to convince everyone it’s all worth it.
So far the US government has been content to let our brains melt out our ears while we sop up the entertainment designed to keep designs of revolution far removed from conscious thought or water cooler discussions, but in recent times we’ve witnessed the emergence of something far more sinister: Guitar Hero.
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