Our society, of course, is anything but balanced. We are driven by the never-ending consumer capitalist clamor for "more stuff." Our imperfections and insecurities - preyed upon by the Corporate Cool Machine to sell their goods - regularly sabotage our greater aspirations. there is no way to realize dreams of transformation without also transforming ourselves.
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One of my assumptions here is that people, whatever our many flaws, are not all that stupid. Even the mainstream folks we might sometimes scorn as "sheep," caught in the Corporate Cool Machine, can be pretty canny, in their way. Most know that talk is cheap; they check to see if you are living what you are talking about. If not, skepticism blooms easily. If our world seems terribly cynical at times, perhaps that is simply because there is just so much bullshit out there.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Come on, now, Blue Marble, I've got something to say.
Quickly becoming one of my favorite authors due to his honesty, insight, and positive outlook, here's Mark Anderson, from All the Power: Revolution Without Illusion:
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Darren do you ever read the comic Transmetropolitan? The main character is this journalist called Spider Jerusalem who is apparently loosely based on Hunter S. Thompson. Anyway, it's hilarious--very dark and cynical, and usually dead-on-balls accurate--and the art is brilliant. I've been accumulating collections of the comic, I am going to lend them to you. I don't know why I decided to post this as a comment on your blog. Perhaps because this is how I seem to communicate with you lately. Shalom.
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