Lest We ForgetRepression too familiar - far too many places. Geographic idiom - absolute power phrases. Command form <<-ISM!>>
Hail! Untouchable. Brown Shirt Uniform Cant-- Conform! What a System: Caste, the Party Line
An electronic glove the greater concern: Minds shackled and bound by television cables. Soft tyranny of trance. Psycho-motor-interrupt. Hypno-program-image dance. The power of
Choose a channel; don't leave the room; stare into the light; swallow a message; accept; consume.
virtual lifetimes away like moths to artificial moonlight, lost in a nether world satellite dream dishing double-dose docility, domestic gridlock automat: compliant component servility. Surrender in mind drone; parallel park the video zone;
-Matthew Berrien Smith, 1994
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