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Society

Everything is a Lobby

I was chatting with a good friend of mine the other night, when she made an offhand mention of the Sugar Lobby. I’ve heard of this group before. One of the less famous of the lobby organizations, but it comes up every so often when you’re reading health blogs. She brought it up to point out one of their most influential accomplishments: they successfully lobbied to have sugar content hidden on the nutritional labels of packaging. Same as it ever was. The inmates are running the asylum. The very organizations from whom safety legislation is meant to protect us are...

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Philosophy / Society

Daddy Government and the Corporate Boyfriend

Daddy Government and the Corporate Boyfriend are two concepts which really sum up the status quo of our society. They’re the two main forces, working in tandem, which ensnare the modern woman, turning her into a useful battery for the powers that be, without regard for the woman herself or the future of our civilization. They’re products of Marketing run amok, that demon-child birthed by Edward Bernays at the beginning of the 20th Century, when he employed the theories of his uncle Freud to shatter humanity into atomized spheres of narcissistic reflection, under the stony, silent gaze of the Puritan God Leviathan.

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Society

The Corporate Boyfriend – A Testimony

A while back I posted a video titled “The Corporate Boyfriend” in which I described the manipulative, addictive nature that many corporate jobs hold for women.  So often we hear Empowered Young Feminists talking about how much they “love their jobs.” As Men, we interpret this in the same manner that we use it: “My job is tolerable, mildly interesting, not overly demeaning, and they pay’s alright.” Men don’t enjoy working for its own sake; it’s a means to an end for us.  Aside from a lucky few, we work to live, we don’t live to work. However, when women...

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Society

Propaganda

The following video was put together by the North Korean government (see below) – a polity which I’m far from a fan of.  Nonetheless it gets quite a bit right, and where it gets things wrong it’s usually along the lines of using the Universalist Narrative to hoist the United States on its own petard. It’s an hour-and-a-half, so clear the schedule, brew a fresh pot of coffee, and settle in.  I recommend keeping track of the portions which strongly go against your grain – for instance, while I despise Quentin Tarantino for a variety of reasons (and endorse their...