Back in the 1980s, we heard a lot about how communist countries had “state-run radio” or some other obvious propaganda device. It conjured up images of banks of censors in basements producing irrationally exuberant radio and TV to manipulate a sleepwalking population. Now the sleepwalking population is us. Method is often irrelevant; it doesn’t matter [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hipsters’
Crowdism
Crowdism is the opposite of parallelism, which is a kind of holism designed to take into account human perception of mind and body as separate. What’s crowdism? The belief, whether known in language to its bearer or not, that the individual should predominate over all other concerns is Crowdism. We name it according to the [...]
Why I’m not in Austin for SXSW
Let me count the ways. Austin, by being tolerant, encourages parasitism. Hey man, are you going to eat those fries? Does anyone have some change? Anything would help. I don’t have any money and any money I did have I just left in Seattle. Can I have a sip of your beer? We’re all in [...]
Inverting the hipster
There was some bloviation about Microsoft’s decision to open retail stores, just like Apple (and before them Gateway, and before them, Tandy) had: MSFT will never be as hip and cool as Apple. Of course, since they aren’t thinking of outside appearance, they’ll also be more stable and realistic than Apple. This is why they’re [...]
