rant

[Chairman Risus]

We used to have monsters. They lived under your bed or in your closet.  They waited at night for you to cut the light off before they could come after you.  Those monsters left. 
The monsters today stroll around in the daylight. They are no longer tangible.  They are greed, fear, hate.  You can no longer ward them off with a night light, waiting for your mother or father to tell you there's nothing under the bed, that nothing is out to get you.  But they were right about one thing. 
Nothing is after you. No one cares what you do.  No one cares what happens to you.  We live in a world where the man next to you couldn't care less, and would probably be more interested in you if you got hit by a bus.
Our leaders are corrupt.  Corporations run your city from behind the scenes.  Progression is a thing of the past, and we now look to survive in a plastic-wrapped, celebrity-obsessed, fear-mongering culture in disrepair.


But hey, atleast there's cable. 

[Triple Zero]

there is no conspiracy
nobody is in charge
big brother is not watching me
it's a headless blunder
operating under the illusion
of a master plan.

[B_M_W]

We used to have monsters. They lived under your bed or in your closet.  They waited at night for you to cut the light off before they could come after you.  Those monsters left. 
The monsters today stroll around in the daylight. They are no longer tangible.  They are greed, fear, hate.  You can no longer ward them off with a night light, waiting for your mother or father to tell you there's nothing under the bed, that nothing is out to get you.  But they were right about one thing. 
Nothing is after you. No one cares what you do.  No one cares what happens to you.  We live in a world where the man next to you couldn't care less, and would probably be more interested in you if you got hit by a bus.
Our leaders are corrupt.  Corporations run your city from behind the scenes.  Progression is a thing of the past, and we now look to survive in a plastic-wrapped, celebrity-obsessed, fear-mongering culture in disrepair.


But hey, atleast there's cable. 

*BUZZER* WRONG!!

People care way too much what you do and think. In fact, the whole goal of advertising and marketing is to find out what you do and think, and make you think and do the way they want you to. Because they don't get more money if dirty deviants don't buy what they are selling. It helps if they turn everybody else against you.

[Chairman Risus]

We used to have monsters. They lived under your bed or in your closet.  They waited at night for you to cut the light off before they could come after you.  Those monsters left. 
The monsters today stroll around in the daylight. They are no longer tangible.  They are greed, fear, hate.  You can no longer ward them off with a night light, waiting for your mother or father to tell you there's nothing under the bed, that nothing is out to get you.  But they were right about one thing. 
Nothing is after you. No one cares what you do.  No one cares what happens to you.  We live in a world where the man next to you couldn't care less, and would probably be more interested in you if you got hit by a bus.
Our leaders are corrupt.  Corporations run your city from behind the scenes.  Progression is a thing of the past, and we now look to survive in a plastic-wrapped, celebrity-obsessed, fear-mongering culture in disrepair.


But hey, atleast there's cable. 

*BUZZER* WRONG!!

People care way too much what you do and think. In fact, the whole goal of advertising and marketing is to find out what you do and think, and make you think and do the way they want you to. Because they don't get more money if dirty deviants don't buy what they are selling. It helps if they turn everybody else against you.

But they don't care about you, personally. They care about people buying and consuming.  Once you've bought what theyre selling, you could go fall off a cliff for all they care.

[Payne]

We used to have monsters. They lived under your bed or in your closet.  They waited at night for you to cut the light off before they could come after you.  Those monsters left. 
The monsters today stroll around in the daylight. They are no longer tangible.  They are greed, fear, hate.  You can no longer ward them off with a night light, waiting for your mother or father to tell you there's nothing under the bed, that nothing is out to get you.  But they were right about one thing. 
Nothing is after you. No one cares what you do.  No one cares what happens to you.  We live in a world where the man next to you couldn't care less, and would probably be more interested in you if you got hit by a bus.
Our leaders are corrupt.  Corporations run your city from behind the scenes.  Progression is a thing of the past, and we now look to survive in a plastic-wrapped, celebrity-obsessed, fear-mongering culture in disrepair.


But hey, atleast there's cable. 

*BUZZER* WRONG!!

People care way too much what you do and think. In fact, the whole goal of advertising and marketing is to find out what you do and think, and make you think and do the way they want you to. Because they don't get more money if dirty deviants don't buy what they are selling. It helps if they turn everybody else against you.

But they don't care about you, personally. They care about people buying and consuming.  Once you've bought what theyre selling, you could go fall off a cliff for all they care.

No, they want to keep on selling to you.

Advertisement and marketing isn't very efficent if you only buy the product once.

[Chairman Risus]

there are always more people

[Payne]

Indeed, but surely it's better to get as much money out of as many people as possible?

They would rather keep YOU alive, and also get the many from your potential 'replacement'.

No they don't care about you personally, but they DO care about your money, and they DO care about taking the money from as many people as possible.

A corporate game of having your cake and eating it too.

[LMNO]

They don't care about your long-term happiness.

They care about your short term actions today.
and your your short term actions tomorow.
your short term actions the next day.

[Torodung]

there are always more people

Exactly. They don't care about the person. They care about "the people." Marketing is a bit like herding cattle, right down to the fact that a stampede is a bad thing.

They aren't interested in me. They're interested in my "average" life and my "2.5 kids" and how to suck their brains out and turn them into more cattle.

This is why there is such a drive in society to celebrate mediocrity. We reinforce mediocrity so that the mediocre have to listen to their superiors, the stars perhaps, to receive their pre-packaged K-ration of enjoyment.

In other words: "One size fits all" means that you've either redefined the word "fit" to mean "fuck," or it fits all through some trickle down free market ideology where uncommon profit is for the common good.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

We used to have monsters. They lived under your bed or in your closet.  They waited at night for you to cut the light off before they could come after you.  Those monsters left. 
The monsters today stroll around in the daylight. They are no longer tangible.  They are greed, fear, hate.  You can no longer ward them off with a night light, waiting for your mother or father to tell you there's nothing under the bed, that nothing is out to get you.  But they were right about one thing. 
Nothing is after you. No one cares what you do.  No one cares what happens to you.  We live in a world where the man next to you couldn't care less, and would probably be more interested in you if you got hit by a bus.
Our leaders are corrupt.  Corporations run your city from behind the scenes.  Progression is a thing of the past, and we now look to survive in a plastic-wrapped, celebrity-obsessed, fear-mongering culture in disrepair.


But hey, atleast there's cable. 

Oh, we still have monsters.

[LMNO]

They seem to be running the country at the moment.

[BumWurst]

Celebrity obsession, and its attendant media coverage, are wonderful innovations. Society has finally given the financially disadvantaged the means to see money as nothing more than a form of compensation for stupidity and incredibly poor taste... Whilst I shiver in my bedsit, I'm able to reflect that whilst Paris Hilton reclines upon silk cusions, tended by armies of eunuchs (or whatever is the fashion in this particular century) she does so wearing ugly shoes. Or perhaps she doesn't. Either way, I'm better than her, in some indefinable sense.
Besides, all the monsters aren't gone. When the moon is full, Paris becomes a leathery grotesque which can be observed hiding in the branches of trees near convenience stores, waiting to pounce on unwary shoppers and steal their booze. It's true.

[LMNO]

48...

[AFK]

What a coincidence, she was interviewed by the leathery grotesque that is Larry King last night.  I've never seen a better softball pitcher in my life. 

[Cramulus]

What a coincidence, she was interviewed by the leathery grotesque that is Larry King last night.  I've never seen a better softball pitcher in my life. 

How was the interview? all softballs then?


My prophecy is that within a year's time, Paris will have reinvented herself as a leather-jacket wearing bad-ass. Did the interview support this? *fingers crossed*