ADBUSTERS!
“Culture Jammers” creating Un-commericials and Design Anarchy
With nine massive transnational corporations owning over 90% of all media distribution
world-wide, we should expect that the bulk of agenda setting stories will serve
the interests of those corporations. That is just common sense.
ADBUSTERS seeks to create and distribute “un-messages” which teach audiences about the mind control techniques which are used hundreds of times each day to indoctrinate, obfuscate, confuse and consecrate. Can you be sold? Are you sold? Every hour of every day?
Many of these nine corporations are widely diversified into other key
economic sectors. For example, Westinghouse (which owns CBS) and General Electric
(which owns NBC) are also major U.S. military contractors. Disney
(which owns ABC / Capital Cities) also owns record labels, movie studios, theme
parks, Discovery Channel, Discover magazine, etc. So we should not expect these
media channels to criticize the defense budget, discourage ‘couch potatoes’, or criticize
the fantasy-based and escapist aspects of our culture. That would simply not be
in their best interest.
This is key, of course, because mass media IS THE WAY ideas, information
and news are transmitted to nearly everyone on the planet. To feign doubt regarding
this truth is to ignore the obvious influences Hollywood has across the globe,
even in third world villages. Monitoring, control and reactive intervention are
now technologically possible, so their economic and political value is mined routinely
by those who have more ambition than soul.
None of this is lost on the folks behind ADBUSTERS who create uncommercials which are available via their web site for YOUR local transmission (also check your local INDEPENDENT video store). They also create spoof magazine ads and other weapons for exposing the lunacy of constant consumer-fornication. (consumernication?)
In the laser sights of modern advertising, the statistics, the observable realities, and even the well-understood human psychology, lead us to a shocking realization: George Orwell’s vision of “Big Brother”, specifically information management by and for an elite ruling class, largely surrounds us today. Orwell’s “Double-speak”, which re-defines words, even to the point of inverting their original meaning, has a modern (and legitimized) practitioner: The Spin
Doctor, who as Orwell observed first-hand during World War II, provides the constant re-writing
of history which is necessary to suit the objectives of the elite.
The point is simple: People in power have the tools to manipulate the public through
the media; they have been perfecting these means since the dawn of radio; they
DO CARE TO manipulate the public to enhance their profit and power; and therefore
we should expect that we are being actively manipulated via the mass media,
not for our benefit but for theirs. This is really just common sense.
So your choices are simple: (1) Enjoy being manipulated, OR (2) Include a supplement
of alternative media in your informational diet.
For those choosing the latter course of action, here is an alternative:
ADBUSTERS, Culture Jammers who spin the media against the grain.
