Please check out Benjamin Barber's book "Jihad vs. McWorld" for a fantastic discussion of 'theme-parking', 'imagineering' and 'videology', as well as a critical assesment of current economic systems. It may help to answer questions relating to the matter of society and corporate hegemony.
Vince Woolums AOL IM: vincewoolums http://www.recordcollectorinc.com http://jump.to/iowacityunderground ----- Original Message ----- From: John Osselaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [313] Ford steals souls.... > > > > > >Coming from a family of working class folks, I wouldn't be here if it > >wasn't > >for companies like Ford, GM, Edison, and Ameritech. As much as they > >monopolize their markets, and they try to corner their shares, they are > >still providing jobs. Jobs for people of all classes and creed. They may > >be the worst employers around, but they are still employers. No one would > >be able to create music if it wasn't for jobs to gain money to buy > >equipment, and so on and so forth. > > ---> Correct, but in todays society everything gets bigger. Small companies > dedicated to quality and personal service get squeezed the life out of them > by the big companies. The same thing happens in 'clubland'. The big parties > get bigger (and in most cases much worse) and people trying to pull off > something smaller, interesting and quality events are just put out of > business by the mindwarping media- and flyercampains of the big boys. > So this leaves you with a choice: go work for the big, unpersonal company OR > struggle ahead and try to keep as much of your own identity in everything > you do. This is a tough choice and it can really get to people. Man, when I > came out of school it took me so long to find a job I accepted a job in a > bank. Every day I had to switch of 'John' to become a number because that's > what I was to those people. I got f***ed so bad in that job I would rather > starve than work in that kinda of entreprise again. > Anyway, this is a sociological development that we can not easily stop. > Everything is moving to quantity instead of quality. Luckily there will > always be a group (most of you are examples) that doesn't want to go there > and who will stick with quality (which hopefully will become a standard > again when the quantity-thing gets out of hand). The only thing that is > sure in this whole thing is: 'It's going to get a lot worse before it's > going to get better (if it ever does)' so we will have to be strong. > > >If we just realize it and ignore it, we'd be much better off, than getting > >all upset everytime we think someone is trying to "steal" our soul. I > >think > >all the opinion expressed are valid and work, but I'd rather see a group of > >considerate people ignoring something that is beyond their control, rather > >than someone "thinking" that there is an issue and doin something that > >ruins > >the whole party. > > --> Ignoring this thing would save us a lot of energy. But, although we may > be smart enough to see through the big marketing schemes, there will be > plenty of people falling for it and getting misled by it. So, how do we > protect (= inform) them? Or do we just stick to ourselves? > > John, trying to finally get from behind the computer, out > > P.S. Nice threads! > > > > >Hope everyone has a wonderful evening... > > > >Cheers! > >Dennis Donohue > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
