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When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion. The consequences of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is difficult to discern in … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, military spending, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Big Tech, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, Education, empire, financial crisis, Marketing, Medicine, national defense, Planned obsolescence, Systemic Collapse, Technocracy, technology
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Smashing the Cult of Celebrity and the Disempowerment Game
By Dylan Charles Source: Waking Times At the dark heart of corporate consumer culture lie the social programs that mass-produce conformity, obedience, acquiescence and consent for the matrix. The cult of celebrity is the royal monarch of these schemes, the ace … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, media, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Celebrity, Consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Culture, Creativity, culture, hollywood, Marketing, materialism, media, mind control, Philosophy, social control, Social Media, spirituality, technology
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Saturday Matinee: Branded
Branded (2012) is a Russian-US sci-fi parable written and directed by Jamie Bradshaw and Aleksandr Dulerayn. Much of the story is told in flashbacks documenting the rise, fall and rebirth of top-level advertising executive Misha (Ed Stoppard, son of playwright … Continue reading
The Reason You Work So Hard to Participate in the Rat Race
By M.J. Higby Source: Waking Times Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A man in debt is so far a slave.” Money has no intrinsic value yet we spend our days damaging our health and spirit in order to obtain it. Why do … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Health, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Work
Tagged Advertising, capitalism, Consumerism, Debt, Economics, Health, Labor, Marketing, materialism, Money, Productivity, Rat Race, society, Stress, Time, Wealth, Work
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