Monday, January 13, 2003

AIDS Infection Rates by Country This is for my buddy Mark who insists that the Muslims have the worst AIDS infection rates. 2:27:28 PM     Comments

TV and the Illusion of Knowing Marshall McLuhan says TV opens out onto an electronic global village. It would seem, rather, that it gives us only the illusion of being. It reinforces security by presenting danger, ignorance by presenting news, lethargy by presenting excitement, isolation by promising participation. The media confines reality to itself. And it limits knowledge by giving the illusion of knowledge. In the same way that the most effective way to deflect, diffuse and terminate a social movement is to announce that it has been achieved (the feminist movement must contend with this on an almost daily basis), the most effective way to deflect inquiry is to present it as fulfilled. TV acts in this guise as a thinking presentation device which offers non-experience as experience and not-knowingness as knowing. 12:57:03 PM     Comments

Is it all right with you if I don't hate the rich? Like I have to ask YOUR permission Americans resent social inequality more than income inequality. I want to be able to say to someone who makes 8 times more than I do a year: "Congradulations, you earned it." 8:41:39 AM     Comments