there's a reason joe goebbels admired madison avenue

i have read a few pieces around the interweb and in the n y times about the relentless pro-party propaganda that inundates the people of china...and how the police are using smart glasses with facial recognition capability to finger "suspects" ( i would read "dissidents" there...thoughtcrime...a favorite of enforcement officials and authoritarian politicians everywhere...from beijing to swamptown )...but here in the egalitarian and freedom loving west we are unvexed by these machinations...right? i have my doubts ( which, incidentally, is how you know it is actually me and not some fucking hacker writing this )...the newspapers arrive while i was out and i have seen serious flaws in the whole "freedom" thing...

the editorial boards ( read advertisers...the media do not want to fuck up the revenue stream by offending the source...so let the advertisers have a large say in content ) have been busy forming my opinions for me and packaging them in a form i pay to receive...quite the system...i pay to be bludgeoned by institutional opinion...or is it that i am researching what the want me to think...opinion varies...i know what i think...and they know what they would like me to think...

the feminist icon and trend setter judy chicago ( "the oracle of feminist art-and the culture that finally caught up to her" ) has made the glossy cover of "T" magazine in the n y times...alas..it is the "women's fashion issue"...

which is chock full of glossy $107,000 ads presenting what the well heeled and chic feminist should be wearing as she asserts herself...the n y times cares about women almost as much as they care about me...but propaganda isn't confined to media ( or..media isn't confined to print or electronics...where the fuck did i put macluhan? )

here is a stunning photo i took this morning of dawn over the junction of indiana routes 6, 53, and 130...we are overwhelmed with propaganda everywhere we go to the extent that we do not even recognize it as such..it's just part of the scenery...and if you look closely just tot he left of the billboard above the route signs, you can se one of the surveillance cameras at the intersection...china got nothing on us.

returning to its destiny

after a hiatus of several weeks ( and with the dow tanking last week there may be another extended moratorium on this sort of propaganda...something i have been pondering recently...advertising as propaganda...it is ubiquitous...almost unseen...virtually subliminal...but there all the same, indoctrinating...engineering the desire to consume...supporting the hegemons...there's a reason why joe geobbels admired madison avenue minds ) the n y times has returned to its bedrock, elitist roots...

"residences" in new york and miami starting at $2 million ( some with expected tax breaks to go along with the "gimme" zietgeist of the current kleptocratic government )...

charles shwab wanting to give investors a "satisfaction guarantee" ( i hear bernie madoff in the background )

eulogizing barry obama's administration...which in no way pandered any less the interests of the hegmons...he was just more subdued about it...less of an attention attracting jerk...

and lauding billionaires as privatized social activists...( we will see if and or how the whole "health care" rigamarole pans out...best bet is there's a profit in it somewhere )..you simply cannot go wrong with the "paper of record" a s a social barometer...pay attention people...they are trying to tell you something.

5:16 p.m. and what the fuck is this pray tell? it is page 16 of today's nyt arts and leisure section and it seems to be an ad for coca-cola...or maybe jusy coke and they're adding an "alkaloid crisis" because the "opioid crisis" is getting stale.