Posted by goldstein! on April 04, 2002 at 00:31:39:
hey capitalist orthodoxy is what i am here to spout about today. people tell me that my ideas are a bit superficial but i need to know what you think!
all governments rely on propaganda, espeically democratic states, propaganda in a democracy is like military in dictatorships.
the best example of capitalist orthodoxy is when you say that you are an anti-capitalist and people automatically think you are a communist! perfect example. also i think that, if you learned much about the soviet union then stalin was on the radio in the newspapers and on the television and so on almost every second and all priase was directed stright at him and no one else. its the same in iraq, in iraq instead of mickey mouse on your watch its saddam hussein! but in our democratic countries, its not omni-potent rather omni-present, so everytime your hear a mcdonalds commercial, a commercial for a bank, for nike, microsoft boeing, rupert murdoch, hungry jacks or burger king or starbucks and so on, this is the same, and it is not my oppoinon or some crazy theory but the reality of globalisation, is the same as hearing stalin or saddam in totalatarian states.
also the current system has been trying to instiutionlise its ideology into the minds of people, meaning that they want it to be part of thier personality. so people who say that nike is cool, or they love their mcdonalds and starbucks or defend corporations in anyway are orthodox.
i have been litrally beaten up, chased and harassed just because of my hatred for corporations and capitalism by my own peers. and thats scary anyway what do poeple think?