About This Site

Giving Blogs

Resources

« Video Archive of Tuesday, May 17, at TPI | Main | Podcast of Matrullo on The World We Have »

May 27, 2005

Comments

JJ Commoner

no other way

Phil Cubeta

From the bottom up and from side to side, in the presence of the wealthy and powerful, who will tell us now and again about The World We Want. As Tracy Gary said to me recently over supper: "In what other way has the world ever been changed except from the bottom up?" Of course the truth is that the science of propaganda is as advanced as genetic engineering and many a world we want has been created by marketers. Yet that false world is about to be broken asunder, a system of dry and dead lies, acknowledged to be such partifcularly by those who create them. "It is all bs, but hey it is a job." Those paid liars are going to be broken like dry sticks by an emergent world they cannot control with rich branded bs, whether corporate or governmental. JJ, these are our people, the "creatives," "the conslutants," the English major in marketing, the journalism majors. We teach them, coach them, manage them. And as insiders we know that they are empty husks, half alive. And what they have killed in themselves will have its revenge. What they have done, I have done worse and for less money. I do not judge them. But for myself - what rises cannot any longer be swallowed down.

Phil Cubeta

From the bottom up and from side to side, in the presence of the wealthy and powerful, who will tell us now and again about The World We Want. As Tracy Gary said to me recently over supper: "In what other way has the world ever been changed except from the bottom up?" Of course the truth is that the science of propaganda is as advanced as genetic engineering and many a world we want has been created by marketers. Yet that false world is about to be broken asunder, a system of dry and dead lies, acknowledged to be such partifcularly by those who create them. "It is all bs, but hey it is a job." Those paid liars are going to be broken like dry sticks by an emergent world they cannot control with rich branded bs, whether corporate or governmental. JJ, these are our people, the "creatives," "the conslutants," the English major in marketing, the journalism majors. We teach them, coach them, manage them. And as insiders we know that they are empty husks, half alive. And what they have killed in themselves will have its revenge. What they have done, I have done worse and for less money. I do not judge them. But for myself - what rises cannot any longer be swallowed down.

The comments to this entry are closed.

Order The World We Want