song 081 : Commercial (Suburban Legends + Outtakes)

I had been reading The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, a book written about forty years ago that major eggheads like to dismiss as post communist hyper intellectuality but to me that book is a word scalpel cutting through all the bullshit foisted on us everyday. I had to read him slow. I had to read one sentence over and over again till I could crack open the meaning.

Debord describes the world as it is. The world of factories churning out anonymous nonsense, a hundred different brands of the same thing, so you can pretend you have choices in life.

The world where appearing is more important than being, where most people are guinea pigs of the AMA, willing wage slaves whose love of liberty can be short circuited with issues like abortion or distracted with a new coat of unexpected colors packaging the latest brand of the same old shit.

The world of media transmitting longing, the never can be satisfied emptiness that sends rich girls on shopping binges and sends poor girls to jail, every TV commercial is aimed right at it.


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