Mediacology

Graph from Political Compass. You can take the test to see where you’re at.

For a peak inside what motivates people to submit to “higher” authorities whiles simultaneously degrading others for refusing to do so, I came across this amazing article which paints a painful psychological portrait of those of the authoritarian persuasion. The article, however, [...]

From Media Matters

Back in the day I told myself that if I ever heard the Butthole Surfers or Sonic Youth recorded as supermarket muzak, it would surely mean the apocalypse had arrived. So far only The Police hold this distinction. Nonetheless, something far more nefarious lurks in the shadows of modern day cultural discourse. The [...]

Thanks Scud!

Do you have an hour? Sit back and put your seat-belt on, Naomi Wolf deconstructs the steps towards a fascist state. This has everything to do with media because media are responsible for diseminating the big lie. To quote the master propagandist himself, Joseph Goebels:
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, [...]

Normally I don’t like to intrude upon our peaceful little world with news I consider dire and dangerous. But once again I hear the war drums pounding and I feel that I cannot remain silent on the matter. Chris Hedges, who has written one of the best explanations about why people go to war, War [...]

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These high-tech evangelicals could be straight out of sci-fi. Except they are real, and they know how to use media against media. Like a Maoist opera on steroids, BattleCry might be marching on your doorstep soon. Should we be scared? The strange thing is that I nave taught media literacy to fundamentalists, which shows [...]

America in a nutshell.
Via Crooks and Liars.

From my friend Jordi Torrent:
In the article “Party Unfaithful-The Republican implosion” (The New
Yorker/June 3, 2007) by Jeffrey Goldberg, Rove states:
There are two or three societal trends that are driving us in an increasingly deep center-right posture (…) One of them is the power of the computer chip. Do you know how many people’s principal source [...]

Yes, well it was bound to happen. The liberals have declared war on Easter! Good thing we don’t have more important things to think about, like say, World War IV?

So I was being snarky when I posted on a wingnut’s case to nuke the moon. As I explained in that post, crossing the “insane” threshold is a political and military strategy to make people believe you will do anything to rule the world. After all, when logic fails, why not scare the shit out [...]

Who said all culture jammers are lefties? (Discuss amongst yourselves.) Here’s a T-shirt company unafraid to use our tactics against us, and I love it! Sure they are distasteful, but they are funny in the same way that “Let’s kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out” is funny. But seriously folks, they are [...]

Here’s the crappy thing about our culture today: I can’t tell anymore if I’m a total sucker. Is this another Yes Men prank?

The campaign is called, “nuke the moon.” Strange thing is, there is some rationality to this irrationality. The argument is that if the US as a superpower acts totally crazy, then no [...]