"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Dr. Menlo: censored by China, Blogsnob and "The Lefty Directory"
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Anonymous said...
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Mr Jackson's FKN News is a classic work of satire that's pointing right at the problem. I find myself laughing at his sketches skewing the PTB – the chuckles passing my lips are bittersweet however, as the humor is due mostly to how much of what he says is true.
- 6:25 PM
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Uncle $cam said...
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Modern economy is nothing but a Ponzi Scheme. Modern American Politics is a "Good Cop/Bad Cop" dumbshow to keep we peasants docile, confused, and if we get angry, to make sure it isn't directed at our Lords and Masters.
- 9:30 AM
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The least 10 years (and really the last 30, though in the last decade it has become crushingly obvious) have demonstated that it really is probably as simple as that, though the smokescreens and propaganda and actual nuts and bolts of it is considerably more complex.