Consume Society

If you need a reason to beware the forces of globalisation, Klein offers hundreds in No Logo. Any one of those reasons could also serve as a rant against modern society. This book is not exactly a manifesto but there are some serious Marxist threads in the logos of Klein’s thinking. Marx is not included [...]

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Hair

I went to the Melbourne International film festival last night and saw a great – uh – “documentary” called The Yes Men Save the World. These two guys give seminars to important CEOs that take the neo-liberal philosophy behind the free market economy to a wholly new level. Brilliant film. S, A and I were [...]

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Slave Mentality

I work for a company that researches social issues for various government departments, universities and non-governmental organisations. The company conducts surveys over the telephone and the interviewers will call private numbers from time to to time using what is called, random digit dialling. Random digit dialling involves simply entering the first six or eight numbers [...]

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