George Carlin’s Frustration with Walking Billboards
I'm reading a big book of George Carlin's writings. Here's an excerpt:
I’m tired of being unable to buy clothing that doesn’t have writing and printing all over it. Insipid sayings, pseudo-wisdom, cute slogans, team logos, designer names, brand trademarks, small-business ego trips; the marketing pigs and advertising swine have turned us all into walking billboards. You see some asshole walkin’ by, and he’s got on a fruity Dodger hat and a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt Of course you can’t see the shirt if he’s wearing his hot-shit Chicago Bulls jacket. The one that only 50 million other loserjock-sniffers own. And since this cretinous sports fan/consumer zombie is completely for sale to anyone, he rounds out his ensemble with FedEx sneakers, ValuJet socks, Wall Street Journal sweatpants, a Starbucks jock strap, and a Microsoft condom with Bill Gates’s head on the end of it No one in this country owns his personal appearance anymore. America has become a nation of obedient consumers, actively participating in their own degradation.From 3 x Carlin.
Time to Call Russia
I agree with Glenn Greenwald's reasons for why no one at the White House is initiating contact with Russia.
The WH should appoint Obama as Secretary of State so that they would have someone competent to pick up the phone and call Russia to defuse this dangerous situation.
Washington DC, Where Truth Depends on Who Rather than What
Glenn Greenwald uses the recent letter by 30 "progressives" to illustrate an ongoing problem in DC:
What's happening is immoral--impersonating a journalist.
About Virtue Signaling
Geoffrey Miller has written a new book on virtue signaling, putting it in a biological and cultural context. It's a neutral concept, necessarily a pejorative, that goes back all the way to the biological origins of humans.
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