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The quote and the lyrics to Revolution (Beatles) have a similar message. Incorrect. Perhaps you merely glanced at the quote I posted. The association is understandable, but what Baudrillard is saying is that aesthetics is primary. Basically, what he is saying is that there will be no revolution, be...

Actually, come to think about it, it would have made more sense if the man were a boy and the wife his girlfriend... I'll have to retell it! :? A boy comes home to his girlfriend carrying a box of condoms with different flavours. He says to her, "Let's have some fun. We'll turn off the lights, ...

A man comes home to his wife carrying a box of condoms with different flavours. He says to her, "Let's have some fun. We'll turn off the lights, I'll put some on, and you have to guess what flavour it is." His wife agrees; they head into the bedroom; they undress; they turn off the lights....

"The blank, oppressive void facing the American consumer populace remains unfilled today, despite the recent launch of the revolutionary Swiffer dust-elimination system, sources reported Monday. The lightweight, easy-to-use Swiffer is the 275,894,973rd amazing new product to fail to fill the vo...

"You can say what you want about this country, and I love this place. I love the freedoms we used to have; I loved it when it didn’t take a f***in' catastrophe to get us to care for one another; I love the fact that we’re on camera all the time, from all angles. You can say what you want about ...

Love begins when you move from liking someone because of to liking someone inspite of. "Everybody's in a shitty thing. That's what it's like to be with somebody: you're either alone, or you're in a shitty thing. That covers one hundred percent of human beings. I can see there's young couples h...

"If I had a dollar for every girl that found me unattractive...
they would eventually start finding me attractive."

Dubious wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2019 11:29 pm

doolhoofd wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2019 1:07 pm I wrote a poem about money recently...
https://www.deviantart.com/doolhoofd/ar ... -770553945

Though many attempt rhyme very few succeed. On this site, I didn't think anybody could. I was obviously wrong!

Thanks!

"We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, with our historical passions withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures." - Jean...

King Kong - the insect pit scene. Spectacle at its finest! HD & 4K available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp8nyPsMofg

What's the difference between a cat and a comma? One has claws at the end of its paws, the other's a pause at the end of a clause.
Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.

A great read! I can tell you put a lot of time, energy, and thought into this. And I'm glad you used the word "evil" at the end to describe this virtual reality that, similar to The Matrix film, gives us a pretty but false fiction to live in while the actual world had long been destroyed....

I read it before you posted the above; indeed, it's similar.
Happy to have found a fan in you, attofishpi.
No idea what your name means, by the way.

I wrote a poem about money recently...
https://www.deviantart.com/doolhoofd/ar ... -770553945

Basically, it's a complaint against Spectacle Society. The title, Fodder 'n' Frivolities, is a play on the Roman "bread and circuses." It deals with our addiction to superstimuli, artificial doubled stimuli, and how they are replacing natural stimuli. Instead of real adventure we now have ...