the occult assault on institutions. Hakim bey rules!
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In the past the alienating medium was the church and the insurrection was expressed in the language of heretical spirituality vs. organized religion. Now the Media plays the role of the Church in the circulation of images. As the Church once concocted a false scarcity of sanctity or salvation, so the Media constructs a false scarcity of values, or meaning.
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As the Church once tried to impose its monopoly on the spirit, the Media wants to re-make language itself as pure mind, divorced from the body.
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The media denies meaning to corporeality, to everyday life, just as the Church once defined the body as evil and everyday life as sin.
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The Media defines itself, or its discourse, as the real universe. We mere consumers live in a skull-world of illusion, with TVs as eyes-sockets through which we peer at the world of the living, the rich & famous, the real.
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Just so did religion define the world as illusion and heaven only as real-real, but so far away. If insurrection once spoke to the Church as heresy, so it must speak now to the Media.
.Once, the revolting peasants burned churches. But what exactly are the churches of the Media?

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

Maureen Dowd

digitalgimpus on terrorism accountability
mellon on nuclear power
Comatose51 on microsoft internet strategy

overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland

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by robert pape

P.S. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Federation of Planets, and to the galaxy for which it stands, one universe, under everybody, with liberty and justice for all species.

Can I use [buzzword] to achieve [unrelated goal]? How can I [verbed noun] my [neologism] to [marketing speak]?