Category: consumerism
On May 9th, 1961,
the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,
Newton Minow, shocked Americans
by declaring commercial television programming to be a
“vast wasteland.”
- Labels: consumerism, media, propaganda, television, trash, truth, violence, waste
Thanks to the like of Wikileaks this conspiracy dreamed up by America’s largest corporation’s is now common knowledge and seems to have died a death. I doubt the dead stay dead long and wouldn’t be surprised to see it ‘Lazarus’ again shortly but not before our eyes, but behind our backs.
- Labels: conspiracy, consumerism
Bruce Pennington art
We are on a train
heading into a brick wall
at 200 miles per hour
towards our extinction
and everyone knows it
- Labels: banks, cannibalism, choice, consumerism, death, deception, extinction, future, human condition, profit, sustainable
This is how it starts, people.
First we get our chatbots to sound and act realistic
and then we get them to convince everyone they’re actually human.
Listen to this crazy conversation
between Time’s Michael Scherer and a telemarketing robot
who refuses to admit her true artificial nature.
- Labels: capitalism, computers, consumerism, lies, propaganda