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'...one of the defining features of totalitarian regimes is imagined to be pervasive propaganda. but whereas these authors saw that a totalitarian regime would be sustained by political propaganda, our age of authoritarian consumerism is sustained by commercial propaganda (!!!!)
as activists of the future, the ground of our struggle is humanity's mental environment - our collective unconscious, the shared pool of myths, dreams and desires that shape how the world manifests. the future of protest begins with the realization that the external world is a reflection of our interior world. what we see is a mirror of ourselves. our communal reality is constructed through our shared culture. and every time we experience a commercial interjection, a fatal lie lodges in our world view. the true danger of pervasive advertising is the damage it does to our mental ecology, the inexplicable interior world that is uniquely human. a clean mental environment is an indispensable ingredient to a thriving civilization. perhaps we cannot conceive a sane future because our collective imagination has been usurped by advertisers, money worshippers and commercialism. we are in a double bind. kicking consumerism out of our heads and finding solutions to the global problems humanity faces become the same struggle. the strategic imperative of our revolutionary struggle - our collective uprising to unshackle our spirits and revive our imagination - comes into view.
our culture is infected by a commercial virus, a disease that keeps us distracted by illusions while the world collapses. and we did not contract the illness by mistake. for decades, corporations have consciously and strategically pursued the commercialization of culture. their winning strategy has been to integrate advertising into public culture. by snatching the role of funding culture away from the people and their governments, corporations have made us dependent on 'free' information, entertainment, services and software that are subsidized by advertising and come at grave cost to our psyches and our world.' - micah white
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