Open Pollen Press Post 0.09
Giving this whole declining quality of life, in 21st. Century America thing a critical analysis, the data appears to indicate it’s Marketing’s onus. Well, what’s been sold was bought, so there is that. Soundbytes sell and the public buy, lacking both real information and discernment.
A population that has allowed itself to be dumbed down to soundbyte thinking, is helpless in the face of persistent, calculated, well developed marketing. Well financed hucksters scientifically play on insecurities. All it takes is to develop juicy demographic targeted hooks and repeat, repeat, repeat. Custom-fit messaging algorithms. Dope the tumbling thoughts of confusion with pharmaceutical precision. Amplify bias. Nail the sub-groups. So important. Soon the target demographics will buy that “Down is up.!” “Rudeness is righteous!” “Greed is Good!” “Down is up!” “Money makes the world go round.” “Down is up!” “Equity and equality is unfair.” “Up has no downside!” And repeat. And again. And again repeat. Soon the target will be chanting “Down with Downside!”
Fear refugees, just like Fear B. O. sells. Fear! Soundbyte smokescreens to camouflage the structural root reality that drives 21st Century environmental and socio-economic migration. Fear! Witness Earth’s most dispossessed people, (Fear!) forced from now lost homes, by the well hedged and diversified, global financial behemoth; Earth raping, war machine market. Acknowledging that reality is really scary. Old Spice cures halitosis.
Caught in the small town decline, and the fishing ain’t what it used to be; blame it on the poor slug working a shit job at the feedlot slaughterhouse spitting out that grain feed shity burger, not on agribiz plowing up the family farm from “fence post to post.” As compounding debt, global oligarchs and trust fund swells enclose up the farmlands. Small towns, like the soil, dust to the wind.
Living as a structurally displaced, in the Information age’s technological wonderland breakdown, where working people are always running, running, maybe, if lucky, keeping up with the treadmill, in the “land of the free” begets; a cognitive dissonance. Dissonance hurts the brain. Sophisticated marketing, that plays on people’s insecurities, desires and fears, provides simplistic, emotionally comforting solutions that salves and soothes the mental dissonance. Delusional comfort blankets sell.
Screw the other dispossessed other is a surefire seller, just give it a little sizzle and repeat. Divide and conquer is an ever clanging bell. Empathetic connection is the oligarchy’s greatest fear. Divisions must be marketed, rudeness and violence normalized and promoted. “Us is smart and good. Them is bad and dumb. Fear them! Screw them!”
There are those who gladly “profit”(sic) from the declining commonweal and rising division and violence, gun play and war. They’ll ply their yachts to bunkered private islands, play their gilded penthouse games and crimes. So Buy! Buy! Buy! Just zone out on T.V. and tailored feeds and scrolling and games and shit… Be sure to visit your AI therapist!…Eat food from dead soil farms. Get your processed. prepackaged, lab augmented, trick your taste buds, crappy feed. Taste the Satisfaction! Taste the Satisfaction!
Commentator pumps you up! Get your dopamine hit and be numbed and dumbed. Get Pumped! Pump Up!…WipesBrand is the softest, most absorbent a-wipe ever! You deserve the best!… Pucker Upper Lip Gloss doubles American Express reward points!… Get an AI virtual mate to fill your dreams! You’ll feel Good!… Go Nads! Go Nads!… Dig your prefab hole, coat the walls with vinyl chloride…
…Tethered to a compounding mortgage, hopin’ your 401K will last you to the grave, because deep down, you know, the kids will never be able to pay the rising rent on declining pay, and the water’s getting bad, and the weather nuts, fire and flood; having bought a mortgaged future, deferred liability, out on a broken limb, in rising winds. Sales tell you the empty bag is full. You feel great relief. Great Relief! You buy another empty bag. Great Relief!
Marketing moggles’ bosses know you and your kids will drop the coin, pull the lever, drink the swill. Buy a Brand! Buy a Brand! Any Brand. !Just Do Brand Think! !Brand Think! !Brand Think! !Brand Think!’s a Ragging Sensation! All Across the Nation! Trade in your old worn out and rusty discernment for a new shiny, big wheeled !Brand Think! Ride the Brand Wave Sensation! E-Z Off Realization! For Every Occasion! Ride the Brand Wave Sensation! !Just Do Brand Think! !Just Do Brand Think!
Soundbytes trump reality. Soundbyte. Soundbyte house of twisted mirror halls sell image fabrications without context, shroding content. Soundbyte. Anything but content and context. Don’t look too deep! Content and context awareness really messes up marketing; fucks with sales.
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