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Funny thing is, that here in the USA we have hundreds of commercial channels in this country, life channels for tear-soaked menopausal women, channels for Navahos and channels to babysit white trash latchkey kids, booty channels for ghetto minorities, business channels, weather channels, and of course dedicated bandwidth for direct shopping and consumption -- and alleged educational channels to feed us vital information about deadly great white sharks, and potential asteroids striking the earth.
God only knows it is an endless electronic landscape of political information pumps, ranging from propaganda penis pumps such as Fox News, to the eye glazing stuporific real-time, watching-paint-dry pump that is CNN. All of this, yet there seems not to be room for a socialist channel.
But whatever media sewer we choose to bathe in, one thing is consistent. And all of them tell us to buy, buy, buy. The one qualified exception is PBS, which tells us to acknowledge the kindness and generosity of sponsors such as ExxonMobil...
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Anyway, media is now the true environment for the average person, much more so than nature itself, which has taken up residence on The Nature Channel. Goodbye French Revolution, goodbye rough hewn America liberty. Goodbye jolly swagman camped by the billabong -- all the real men, the blood and guts patriots who would have never stood for this kind of shit, they have gone a'waltzing Matilda. What's left are the dregs. Otherwise known as consumers. And that includes you and me.
So go out and buy something.
Preferably beer.
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http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2008/06/goodbye-roussea.html*
Pound for pound, Joe's the funniest around & he tells the truth. From his point-of-view anyway.