Nance Greggs: An Open Letter to Brian Williams

[DeSwiss]

18. The weinermobile is one more man-made construct.....

...signifying nothing. Its innards filled with empty calories and even less thought which dwells within this vast landscape of consumer iconography, we call America. I suppose it signifies an American's right to become a mobile dick or something like that (all meat and no brains but it moves fast!). It makes little sense either way one looks at it. And yet apparently there is no escaping the inanity of it all.

- It is the price we pay for liberty or what passes for it these days......

''The average American spends about one third of his or her waking life watching television. The neurological implications of this are so profound that they cannot even be comprehended in words, much less described by them.

Television creates our reality, regulates our national perceptions and our interior hallucinations of who we Americans are (the best and only important tribe on the planet.)

It schedules our cultural illusions of choice, displays pre-selected candidates in our elections, or types of consumer goods. It regulates holiday marketing opportunities and the national neurological seasons, which are now governed by the electrons of the illusion.

We live within a media generated belief system that functions as the operating instructions for society. Anything outside of its parameters represents fear and psychological freefall to the faceless legions within it.''

~Joe Bageant, The Simulacran Republic

R.I.P. - Joe Bageant ~ 1946-2011