OG Greenwald discusses the way out-of-party challengers are almost invariably described as “crazies” by members of the established two parties.
One other point: intense, fixated mockery of marginalized, powerless people has the benefit of distracting attention from the actions of those who are actually in power.
This is also the moment I realized OG isn’t on my blogroll. Oversight attended.
And, what the hell, Commander Cody ain’t all that bad, either.
Without further comment:
And so we ask the Internet to keep interrupting us in ever more varied ways. We willingly accept the loss of concentration and focus, the fragmentation of our attention, and the thinning of our thoughts in return for the wealth of compelling, or at least diverting, information we receive. We rarely stop to think that it might actually make more sense just to tune it all out.
George Bailey would have died in prison if the modern New York Times had ruled in Bedford Falls.
But one example of why Mr. Somerby rocks the world.
You know that part of online surveys where they loosen it up a little and turn the mic over to the audience in the form of a text box to be filled with your tips and tricks on how this humble business could best abase itself to make your Gawain-like quest for the simple wares it happens to peddle just that much more fulfilling to your slobbering existential gob. Yeah, this is how I go after shit like that:
The location is fine. These stupid survey questions that really only reinforce the most annoying portions of GameStop’s stifling corporate policies could improve to capture impressions like, “I don’t think GameStop policy allowed the employee to give their actual opinion” or, “On a scale of 1 to 10, how intrusive do you think GameStop ‘no press’ policies are on GameStop employees rights“. Stuff like that. Also, don’t require answers to questions a survey taker might disagree with, like all three of the ones prior to this box. “Set the standard for video game shopping”? Are you fucking serious? You want some retail drones to bust their ass for you to deliver something that has to just simply blow away my concept of game sales? What fucking universe do you live in, smart ass? Sure, it was stellar, I needed a cigarette after and they didn’t even want me to call them at work the next day to see if they were doing OK. There, will that get you to pay your fucking front line employees even close to what the marketing dipshits who came up with this stuff rape you for once a quarter? I didn’t think so. Ass hats.
Enjoy your marketing degree from the school of hard knocks.
