is this fashion or propaganda?

agitprop for trumpist times

"nothing is certain"..."change is here"...the cover is full of commonplaces...change is pretty much a constant in life...i am certainly not who i was forty years ago...probably not the same as i was last week...and humans have evolved with uncertainty as a paradigm which has enhanced out adaptability ( a true pharmakon...yes it can help you work your way through that "change" thing...you can become inured to death camps and human suffering too... ) and made us unsighted at times as adaptations become habit and we stop considering variables...i have some certainties...i harbor far more uncertainties and doubts which reinforces my skepticism about most things including what the elite is up to...the times is not an elitist newspaper...they have said so a number of times...i am skeptical, finding them to be both a mouthpiece for the east coast liberal elite and for corporate elites as well as being "the paper of record"...the "style" magazine is always a smoking gun that puts the lie to the whole non elitist facade...the economy is at a dead standstill for millions of people whose finances are rapidly disintegrating bogus "executive orders" aside...the stock market does not seem concerned about that...it is chugging right along which, for me, is an index that the elite doesn't much care either...an ayn rand, subjectivist "fuck the poor" viewpoint that elites and libertarians so love...their concerns lie elsewhere and, importantly among them, how they look is one of them...you have to dress the part and indulge in my good friend thorstein veblen's sort of consumption...so...

how about a coat and a dress for a mere $10200...equal to the wages some receive from one of their part-time jobs in a year i'd wager...

or this bottega veneta dress for a paltry $7650...a steal...

and you could accessorize with one of this $28128 worth of purses...one of which, in keeping with the zeitgeist of uncertainty goes for "about" $3150...

and watches...we all need a bauble...choose from $479400 worth with one complementing the current paradigm of dubiety by selling for "about" $186000...about...if you have to ask the price you can't afford it and if you can't afford i'm afraid you are not of the elite you poor sod...and fear is what it is about...advertising has always been fear based...fear that you'll smell bad or drive a beater auto or wear last year's styles..and since politics is all about selling belief in the virtues and intentions of a candidate it's pretty much fear based as well...the current circus certainly is with both side howling about how awful it would be if the other side wins and not one of them actually advocating anything substantive about real issues...true, they are of the elite themselves ( or aspire to be...politics is a gateway to wealth...and a way to protect and expand what you have...ask donny...or mitch...or nancy ) there are any number of issues they cannot touch on because admitting their existence would require acting on them in ways that might be detrimental to the prerogatives of wealth...addressing climate change for instance...the climate doesn't care about their prerogatives...neither, as the majority of the population and as the putative controllers of the government, should we...they would much rather we concentrate on issues that are divisive and we are doing a fine job of that...this is not to deny that there are gross social injustices and that most of them ( but not all ) are based on skin color...what it is to say is that addressing them though existing institutions and leadership isn't going to do much to obviate them since the institutions and leadership are part of the problem...they are using identity politics to divide rather than unite and insuring the continuation of their bogus jobs...and we play along...the majority of us are workers in corporations controlled by the elite and it just might be time to coalesce around the "worker" identity and recognize one another as peers in those concerns and work to address the raft of other issues we face from that basis of equality...this would require the abandonment of political parties controlled by elites...they would not take kindly to that...it would make them fearful and frightened people, as if you need to be reminded by me, can do some awful things to other people..and they keep stoking the fears for exactly that reason...to keep us fighting among ourselves rather than realizing our majority status...think it over next time you see donny or mitch or nancy or alex pontificating.