“The election of Obama was one more triumph of illusion over substance. It was skillfull manipulation and betrayal of the public by a corporate power elite. We mistook style and ethnicity – an advertising tactic pioneered by Calvin Klein and Benetton – for progressive politics and genuine change.” In short, they bullshitted a whole population of people with a tried and true marketing tactic and called it “change”. Here we are again a few years later, and they’re set to do it again. The ironic part is that even the folks who made their careers off deconstructing media, writing and publishing papers that were thought of as critical analysis, who would have recognized and laughed at a Benetton ad, fell for the advertising campaign/brand also known as the obama yes we can “freedom” train. How sad is that? if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning again and again…then link me.
