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Originally posted on Facebook August 29 2010:
Introducing the new Apple iPatch. (Borg implants brought to you by the good
folks at Halliburton.) "Bringing good things to life."
Facebook Comments following original post and comments by my friend May:
Facebook September 2010
... May it is not like I have anything against the medium there are a lot of
good movies, music, art and so on... that make their way through the
electronic media. My problem is in how the medium is being sold to us and as
I see it, Apple (sorry Jennifer) is one of the most twisted. It's like a
marketing cult. Every movie has a Mac laptop in it somewhere. Steve Jobs is
worshiped as god and the converts will call you stupid for using a PC
attempting to bring you into the flock. The medium is just a tool it's the
message that's important and when the medium becomes the message? Well
then... we can't see the moon for the finger pointing at it.
And Halliburton... well that corp is just evil
incarnate. You look at anything that has gone wrong lately (Gulf, Iraq,
Cheney, Bush...) and that fucking H is blazing in the background. Take the
movie Gasland (good movie May, very informative)... Halliburton technology
is directly responsible for polluting all the ground water and for what?
PROFIT!! And Steve? He's not here to make you cool and hip, he's here to
make a PROFIT!! And I'm sick of it. I don't do my art to make money, I need
money to make my art. I wish it wasn't so but that's the world we live in.
Isn't it?
I also love Star Trek May and there was so much
good shit to come through that show that I can't even begin. The whole Borg
thing... a reflection of our time.
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Relevant excerpt from journal entry:
Kults, Krackpots &
Kreeps (Leave your white cloak & hood in the closet boys... here's the
new K.K.K.) 10/1/2009
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"Fee fi
fo fum
Smell the blood of a gullible bum
Brain dead bored bought into the fraud
BiggerHarderFasterMore!
Trying to find some way of stopping
Struggling home with bags of shopping
Gotta buy gotta-gotta buy-buy...."
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SwineFever ~ From the
Album NakedSelf ~ the The ~ Lyrics by Matt Johnson
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It would seem that I have lost myself and humor in seriousness again.
It's just that I have a daughter. I see in her world, this karmic trade-off thing, this dis-ease or virus which through her innocence is being
transmitted into her mind, keeping her up at night confused and asking
why? I see how it's all a big competition, where our children's
self-worth is being measured by what latest techno junk they have.
It's like humanity is suffering from some self induced identity crisis.
The need to belong, or the tribe mindset, has now migrated into the material
world, where corporations are just waiting if not actively pursuing
and creating converts.
The most obvious and overt example of this corporate techno fulfillment
phenomenon is brought to you by Mac or Apple computers. I have no
idea how many times I have been asked what we are, Mac or PC.
And when I am asked that question, I know without a doubt that they are
Mac-enites or Ap-ologists. It's like a fucking cult. I'm not
kidding. Here's how it works. First the Apple-corp-cult
embezzles what little self-worth you might be in possession of through
their ads. Have you seen them? In them the Mac is supposed
to come off as all cool, hip and serenely righteous. While the PC
is always portrayed as a buffoon and rather dimwitted. The ads and
movie product placements having done their job, now they sell your own
coolness back to you at exorbitant prices. And here is where the
marketing gets really good.
Having paid through the nose for their techno-junk, you are now a full
fledged cult member. I'll tell yah, Steve Jobs has a better scam
going than Scientology. For now that you are a fully invested cult
member, it is time to bring others into the fold. Hence, how I am
asked repeatedly, are you a Mac or PC... and when my reply is that I use
or work with a PC, they will invariably and with unfettered arrogant
self-righteousness (not unlike the Christian brethren) tell me,
"Mac is the best." In so doing, trying to make me feel like I am
missing something in my life. You would think by how committed
they are to their salvation, they were making a commission on
bringing in converts. Or even attaining enlightenment through the
purchase of planned obsolescent techno trash. Of course, nothing
could be further from the truth, for the truth is, when their Mac goes
out of date in a couple of years they will be paying through the nose again. Nice snow
job Steve.
And don't even get me started on how Mac-Corp has managed to copyright
and trademark the I in almost everything. iPod, iMac, iPhone, iTunes... I'm not
buying this iShit. I wouldn't be surprised if one day in the the
not too distant future we will have to either not use the word I any
longer, or have to pay royalties to Mr. Jobs for the right to do so.
My real concern is that with the advent of iTunes there will come a day
when iTunes becomes the only distribution network for music. And
as is the case when music distribution methods are changed (vinyl to
tape to compact disk), I will no longer be able to get it, because I
in good conscience refuse to use it.
This
iCrap reminds of a time in Sedona when we came across some people who had
entered some cult, where they were instructed to remove the word I
from their language. "I" was replaced with "one"
so that everything became "this one this, and this one that"...
the end result being, they became impossible to communicate with, because
they demanded that everyone else do the same. I wasn't buying
it, and as those spiritual potheads the Rastafari use the term, I & I
were left with no other option but to take our communal spliff and split
the scene.
My guess is that I have lost all Mac converts with those last
paragraphs. The truth can be cruel. Feeling like a fool is
not a pleasant emotion. I should know, because I have been fooled more
than a few times. The truth of Mac's groovy illusion is the exact
opposite of the marketing presentation. After all, we all got Intel
inside these days. The truth is, to cop to and admit yourself a
fool, can be a liberating experience. And a computer is just a
tool, not who we are. Unless of course you consider yourself a
tool.
~
"Shut
your eyes, don't criticise
It's a big surprise
Ain't telling ya lies
Truth hides in plain sight
Kentucky Fried Genocide"
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GlobalEyes ~ From the
Album NakedSelf ~ the The ~ Lyrics by Matt Johnson
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"The Apple iPatch" ~ Digitally Recycled Recreation ~ Copyright © 2010 by Petrus H. Boots
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