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Brilliant Chris. Couldn't have said it better myself. The audio is good too.
Nice one
Mike
"We can fix it". Yes they have, haven't they. Nice one Chris.
A poem about the manufacture of consent and the world we have been left with, post Edward Bernays and the taking of his uncle's (Sigmund Freud's) ideas of the understanding of unconscious human desires. A poem of politics, the loss of conviction, principle and high ideals to the world of focus groups, short term-ism and big business. A poem about the new Realpolitik, policies sold as products, marketed to the individual desires of the selfish needs of consumerist society.
Toward the conclusion of the poem, some lines are formed with double meanings from product slogans, inclusive of Apple, McDonalds, Coke, Nike, L'Oreal and finally Tesco - (a UK supermarket to US friends) the last line itself a reference to the saving or gaining of money in the buying of products.
Further reading;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
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Chris Co
Tue 30th Jul 2013 20:42
Dave, Mike - Thx for listening and for your thoughts.
Hey Dave - we can fix it, was also supposed to lightly hint towards Obama's election slogan. Not sure if this came across or not?
Another slogan, more betrayed promises etc. I didn't want to use the full slogan due to its bob the builder connotation in the UK. I hoped to avoid the absurdity, hint at the slogan and say something inherently true about the nature of all this.
Mike & Dave -
Glad you felt the poem worked on some level.
I sort of knew part of the picture, was aware of much of this, but my thoughts were crystallised into words after watching Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States and more importantly the Adam Curtis documentary Century of the Self. When it comes to democracy and the perceived notion of freedom, it would indeed seem that life is stranger than fiction. If you made the truth up, people would think it to far fetched.
Best of
Chris