Greetings good citizen, No one appreciates the fact that Hollywood is 'bankrupt' more than me. The endless remakes of some real gaggers [they weren't popular when they were first made, do the people greenlighting this dreck think the script's 'time has come'?
Don't even get me started on television, talk about a wasteland!
But I digress...this ain't about Hollywood, it's about a media management that believes...well, let me make my case and you'll figure it out quick enough.
As a writer I often roll plot lines through my head and examine them. We've all seen Hollywood's obsession with vampires and zombies and apart from being what I would call extreme escapism there isn't much 'critical thinking' behind these, er, gruesome gorefests.
Central premise behind both popular...er, creatures is that they're both 'undead'.
Vampies suck your blood (despite not having a metabolism to make use of this odd behavior...when mosquitoes do it they use it to reproduce...and vampires are 'modeled' on mosquitoes.
Which brings us to zombies. Films have alternated from the strict interpretation of 'reanimated corpses' hungry for the flesh of their own kind (something you're obviously not supposed to waste a lot of time considering) until you consider what the 'too clever by half' writers are driving at.
The part that should bother you good citizen is the government has a website dedicated to what the public should do in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse.
Let's take a moment to consider the modern 'zombie' shall we?
Now, instead of being a re-animated corpse [filled to the brim with embalming fluid] our 're-imagined' zombies are infected with some virus that makes it's victims want to eat the flesh of it's own kind.
This is almost as insane as vampires that are stronger than superman and more intellectually gifted than Einstein...oh and if you're the 'right type' even the sun/light of day doesn't bother you...so much for 'creatures of the night'.
Now we have people wanting to get infected, since feeble writers turned vampires into 'victims' rather than the murderous monsters they started their career in fiction as.
Now, some filmakers have imagined parts of the world overrun with vampires but these are as lame and bankrupt as the people who greenlighted these losers!
Um, alright good citizen. you may opine I can't be 'objective' on the subject of fictional characters but both the large and small screen are awash with ghosts, mythical creatures and the 'dramatized' stories of murder and mayhem...all for your 'entertainment'.
Except that this steady diet of 'oogum-boogum' is conditioning the public to ask A.) who watches this tripe? and B.)are these the morons voting for the guy that shouldn't even be running, nevermind president?
This is 'perception management' in the extreme.
Now a lot of us have retreated from the eye that never blinks but even what passes for 'news and information' is steeped in hokum.
Last night I watch a, er, don't know quite what to call this not so funny comedian that has his own HBO show doing a full court press on the oligarch's latest psyche campaign.
It's not about who is going to be president, it's about keeping 'the wrong person' from becoming president!
While many of you are too young to remember what it was like before 'Morning in America' things have certainly taken a bizarre twist since the 'Reagan Revolution' [which he, coincidentally, SLEPT THROUGH!]
The indictment I am making here is those who want you to believe the rest of society is losing it have cast YOU in the role of 'a mindless, flesh-eating corpse'.
The Zombie Apocalypse is already upon the poor beleagured and beseiged capitalist as hordes of mindless flesh eating creatures clamor for justice that they aren't capable of appreciating.
Here I am torn between (their) hubris and chutzpah. [both are damning.]
It's one thing to 'think' the public is incapable of making it's own decisions and quite another to use money to prove the point.
Pavlov's dogs are very well conditioned to respond when cash is waved in their general direction and the actions of a few is all it takes to doom the rest of us.
Worse, all this tripe few are interested in (yet they keep spewing it because it supports their campaign to paint society as 'irrational') puts you in a very bad position indeed.
They keep hijacking the electoral process and you have no choice but to go along with their lies.
The 'evidence' is all on their side.
We either live in a nation of drooling idiots or we live in a nation run by ruthless opportunists who will stop at nothing to prevent being brought to justice for their heinous crimes.
Those are 'the stakes' good citizen.
Imagine a nation where the criminals have usurped the government...you are there!
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
PS: Gegner is still pressing his idea that the only way to break the criminal's hold on the justice system is a general strike [which may be accompanied by widespread lynching on both sides so watch your back.]
Don't even get me started on television, talk about a wasteland!
But I digress...this ain't about Hollywood, it's about a media management that believes...well, let me make my case and you'll figure it out quick enough.
As a writer I often roll plot lines through my head and examine them. We've all seen Hollywood's obsession with vampires and zombies and apart from being what I would call extreme escapism there isn't much 'critical thinking' behind these, er, gruesome gorefests.
Central premise behind both popular...er, creatures is that they're both 'undead'.
Vampies suck your blood (despite not having a metabolism to make use of this odd behavior...when mosquitoes do it they use it to reproduce...and vampires are 'modeled' on mosquitoes.
Which brings us to zombies. Films have alternated from the strict interpretation of 'reanimated corpses' hungry for the flesh of their own kind (something you're obviously not supposed to waste a lot of time considering) until you consider what the 'too clever by half' writers are driving at.
The part that should bother you good citizen is the government has a website dedicated to what the public should do in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse.
Let's take a moment to consider the modern 'zombie' shall we?
Now, instead of being a re-animated corpse [filled to the brim with embalming fluid] our 're-imagined' zombies are infected with some virus that makes it's victims want to eat the flesh of it's own kind.
This is almost as insane as vampires that are stronger than superman and more intellectually gifted than Einstein...oh and if you're the 'right type' even the sun/light of day doesn't bother you...so much for 'creatures of the night'.
Now we have people wanting to get infected, since feeble writers turned vampires into 'victims' rather than the murderous monsters they started their career in fiction as.
Now, some filmakers have imagined parts of the world overrun with vampires but these are as lame and bankrupt as the people who greenlighted these losers!
Um, alright good citizen. you may opine I can't be 'objective' on the subject of fictional characters but both the large and small screen are awash with ghosts, mythical creatures and the 'dramatized' stories of murder and mayhem...all for your 'entertainment'.
Except that this steady diet of 'oogum-boogum' is conditioning the public to ask A.) who watches this tripe? and B.)are these the morons voting for the guy that shouldn't even be running, nevermind president?
This is 'perception management' in the extreme.
Now a lot of us have retreated from the eye that never blinks but even what passes for 'news and information' is steeped in hokum.
Last night I watch a, er, don't know quite what to call this not so funny comedian that has his own HBO show doing a full court press on the oligarch's latest psyche campaign.
It's not about who is going to be president, it's about keeping 'the wrong person' from becoming president!
While many of you are too young to remember what it was like before 'Morning in America' things have certainly taken a bizarre twist since the 'Reagan Revolution' [which he, coincidentally, SLEPT THROUGH!]
The indictment I am making here is those who want you to believe the rest of society is losing it have cast YOU in the role of 'a mindless, flesh-eating corpse'.
The Zombie Apocalypse is already upon the poor beleagured and beseiged capitalist as hordes of mindless flesh eating creatures clamor for justice that they aren't capable of appreciating.
Here I am torn between (their) hubris and chutzpah. [both are damning.]
It's one thing to 'think' the public is incapable of making it's own decisions and quite another to use money to prove the point.
Pavlov's dogs are very well conditioned to respond when cash is waved in their general direction and the actions of a few is all it takes to doom the rest of us.
Worse, all this tripe few are interested in (yet they keep spewing it because it supports their campaign to paint society as 'irrational') puts you in a very bad position indeed.
They keep hijacking the electoral process and you have no choice but to go along with their lies.
The 'evidence' is all on their side.
We either live in a nation of drooling idiots or we live in a nation run by ruthless opportunists who will stop at nothing to prevent being brought to justice for their heinous crimes.
Those are 'the stakes' good citizen.
Imagine a nation where the criminals have usurped the government...you are there!
Thank you for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
PS: Gegner is still pressing his idea that the only way to break the criminal's hold on the justice system is a general strike [which may be accompanied by widespread lynching on both sides so watch your back.]
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