This is about the lamest thing I have read in years. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
> Well, our offensive against Starbucks wasn't so much against Starbucks per > se. We wanted to utilize some crappy generic corporate "art" to auto-destroy > another establishment that, at the time, was rapidly crystallizing "brand > consciousness" in the minds of consumers. So, to put this in a language other than "Dot-Com Drivel", you picked on the first thing that came to mind, blindly, and then tried to figure out how to justify it later. > By destroying a Starbucks, we > wished to introduce a crystal imperfection, so that alternate, > non-corporate-driven considerations of "branding" might be catalyzed. > We continue to maintain the right to develop truly populist forms of conception > towards consumer items, independent of the desire of the coporate state. Yet more Dot-Com Drivel. Do you write web pages for living? > Unfortunately, we incurred our first casualty, one Robert Paulson. Note the > willingness of rentacops to use deadly force to stop someone who was > finished in the destruction of mere property. This, according to the > establishment, was justified as an act of "violence against violence". I agree that death was an inappropriate sentence here, while I also realize that there is an delicious Darwinian twist as well. > As for Starbucks itself, we have no particular qualm. And with this one sentence, you have utterly destroyed your credibility. > -Tyler Durden -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
