Something eerie about how the pandemic shutdown presaged postpandemic austerity/forced homebodying
-zzyxx
The propaganda over the summer regarding the movies the title alludes to was suffocating and oppressive in so many ways it’s hard to know where to begin. I don’t really want to so much, but overall Oppenheimer and “the bomb” were a grade or middle school discussion; Barbie was something you desperately wanted to avoid and feared (as an image) among certain populations around the same age. I’m not that old – I mean these mundane facts of what secular life has been in the US isn’t so alien to whatever fucking audience the media managers are trying to sell to.
Now I feel the predictive intent of this media storm was actually intentional, but predictive programming as a kind of analysis deployed in parapolitical circles doesn’t account for our response to it, by and large. At that point, it’s just, see: Bernays. All your senses belong to jooz. But I think it is illustrative of the intent of plastic for we, bombs for thee, according to this collective sentiment the rulers wish to instill among the public.
How we wish to ignore the plastic bomb, and as we become big fat polymerized consumption and button pushing blobs that can be zapped dead at any time. It’s a cartoonish description of a cartoonish goal that comes across as very real when we aren’t connected to the numbing effects of the ‘net. Dropping dead months after being coerced into injected poison that led to an undetected clot that finally grew to a point your brain couldn’t do automated functions – well they are figuring this all out and it’s happening. Does a random 24 year old male taking his child to school pose the most dire corporate intelligence threat? He might if he resists the order in totality and isn’t in a place such as Gaza that makes him an easier target.
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