I often find that the overall culture of our corporate consumerist dystopia is mired in contradictions that are likely to be making a lot of people dazed, lost, confused and afraid of opening their mind lest it be utterly blown away by the sheer lack of sense in the overall state of society.
I mean, we’re told we need tighter buns, flatter abs, softer skin, and yet we have Big Macs, soft drinks and a wide assortment of chocolates, candies and other nasty junk launching their colourful assault on our eyes and minds from their places on store shelves and TV commercials.
We’re told we need to go to school and get an education to make it anywhere in life, yet we’re expected to be docile and stupid… all the better for the elites when they want to sell us crap, send us to war or sign away our rights with yet another law that is intrusive of our liberties. And of course, the corporate oligarchs running the industries necessary for such things are laughing all the way to the bank as they count their hundreds of millions of dollars they’re not likely to be spending while people who work harder, more labour intensive jobs, breaking their backs and filling their lungs with coal dust earn only a fraction of that.
But those hard-working middle-class shouldn’t have to worry if they get injured or sick doing their back-breaking jobs… because the health insurance companies are there to pick up the bill when it happens. Oh wait… you had a yeast infection ten years ago? That’s a pre-existing condition? The procedure and medication are ‘experimental’? Oh well… sucks to be you… just do us a favour and die quickly OK?
We go to the bank… see about opening an account so we can ‘make our money grow’ like their ads say… maybe get a debit card to use to pay the bills… oh don’t do that… we want you to get a credit card. Its so much easier to get stuff on a credit card right? Yeah… your money grew all right… it grew when it started to belong to the banks who are charging interest on that new big screen plasma TV you couldn’t afford but bought anyway.
By the way… on the subject of television… lets say you’re watching all the free-to-air networks… and rightly conclude that the content on there is rubbish. Then you see an ad on those channels for pay TV and you get a set top box and a Foxtel subscription… and guess what… you’re still getting the same rubbish… only a lot of it is imported from the UK rather than the US. And the ad breaks aren’t any shorter either… hmmm….
Libraries… reading classes? Oh hell yeah lets get all of our children to read everything they can get their hands on. Oh wait… Harry Potter… evil manual for witchcraft… can’t have that. Teenagers and adults… you’d better be reading too. Oh… you want to read The God Delusion? Heathen swine! You’d better be reading the Bible. Nineteen Eighty Four? What have you got to go questioning the government for? Don’t you know they are here to help? How about Twilight then? Oh you like the emo Mormon vampires? That’s OK. Don’t forget to go watch the movie and buy all the merchandise as well… that’s a good little consumer slave.
Is it any wonder the search for consistency in society, and even the striving for consistency in your own life and mind is so difficult? We’re treated to this massive clusterfuck of contradictory messages and we’re expected to take all of them in.
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