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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
What profoundly amazes and saddens me is that young people who should be the fount of independent thought and revolutionary thinking have been so duped by these gadget-generating greedy corporations that they have actually swallowed, hookm line and sinker, the marketing message that Hi-Tech is the way and the future! It is as if an entire generation has been sold through brilliant marketing that the best way to spend ones life is through obsessive purchase and use of appliances like Washingmachines and
Refrigerators and cars and...oh, but wait. That did happen, didn't it. Right after WWII, during the Eisenhauir era when the man in the gray flannel suit, the corporate man, began his rise on the back of technologies and through corporate sustems that were produced, in large part, to serve the aims of war, now applied to civilian life (including population control). At least them, youth revolted, through rock and roll, Beat Literature and later, the cultural explosion of the 60s. And refrigerators and washingmachines do not a totalitarian society make: Kindles do. Hi-Tech is something altogether different. Hi-Tech and all its systems and devices are addictive,
attention-destroying and soul-sapping. Also, we have a youth population that have been subjected to the most sinisterly effective marketing campaign in human history--one that made the selling of National Socialism or Communism to their respective populations seem like games by comparison. But the end games are the same:
control and domination of our thoughts and actions. How can young people not see that plainly and fail to rise up in outrage and destroy the machine that is systematically devouring them? Instead, Sherman and I are called names and villiified and mocked.
But though we seem like weirdos and cranks to so many of you, we are the only voices in the wilderness arguing for the rescue of your human essence.
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Why oh why oh why do you keep going on about corporations when you work for one? You're the lackey, friend, you're the slave to the corp, the 9to5 writer, the yes sir no sir writer. You're in league with the ten-percenters and the slave masters of the publishing world. You're not a revolutionary, you're not a free-thinker, you're in collusion with the opressors. You, sir, are a traitor to every idea you claim to hold as truth. You are the man in the gray suit.
Alan Kaufman's book "Matches" is published by Back Bay Books, a subsidiary of Hachette who are owned by Lagardere, one of the biggest corporations in the world.