With Christmas coming, I wrote a seasonal poem to get you in the shopping mood entitled:
Tag Archive: Adbusters
BILL POSTERS WILL BE PROSECUTEDwe are the lads
FEED by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press, 2002)
Ever get the feeling that you are just part of the machinery?
Do you have the sensation that information is accessing you NOT vice versa?
If you cannot categorically answer a defiant NO to either of these questions then maybe Feed is the novel for you.
The publishers also think that you need to be a ‘Young Adult’ , or at least a mature teenager, to be classified as one of its target audience but I’d say the arguments are applicable to all ages. Continue reading
Love this striking and effective image from Adbusters :
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE directed by Sean Durkin (USA, 2011)
It is common to brand someone as insane when their behaviour runs counter to the conventional norms in society.
But what if those norms are based on fucked up values?
Sean Durkin’s assured debut movie is a powerful psychological drama that shows the vulnerability of the ‘haves’ in society and raises disturbing questions about how we classify mentally illness.
In the latest Adbusters tactical briefing that I received by e-mail today I was informed that: “millions of people around the world are waking up to the fact that their future does not compute… that their lives will be a never-ending series of ecological, financial, political and personal crises… and that if we don’t rise up and start fighting for a different kind of future, we won’t have a future”.
There’s no intrinsic political message in this movie but it occurred to me that the bleak conditions of the modern world that Adbusters so accurately identify are a fertile ground in which cults and fake ideologies thrive.
In desperate times people look for desperate solutions and are drawn to those who offer a sense of purpose and belonging. Continue reading
Anger, like love, is an energy but for a truly revolutionary movement to succeed there is also a need for focus and discipline.
The fact that the Occupy Wall Street movement is intent on maintaining a non-violent protest is a positive thing but, as the initiative for change takes on a more global perspective with the so-called indignants or ‘indignanti’ it is hard to see this fragile peace being maintained for long.
The violence on the streets of Rome today raise memories of the Anti-Globalization protest in Genoa ten years ago which resulted in the death of Carlo Giuliani. Continue reading
