consumerism Archives

Barbara Kruger’s “Anti-Retrospective” at Art Institute of Chicago

22/07/2021

Opening in September, the delayed solo exhibition will be the largest and most comprehensive presentation of Kruger's work in twenty years....

Self-Medication or Self-Anesthesia: It’s No Wonder We Tune Out

15/12/2017

Beneficiaries of the system promote their lies; the sane seek solace where they can get it...

The Many Uses of Dead Baby Whales

29/11/2017

Blue Planet II's weekly reminder that you are a sh*t...

Darkness at the Edge of Town

13/11/2017

Mass shootings are a reflection of a culture that used guns to create itself...

Winter? Embrace Your Depression, It’s The Soul’s Defiance

20/10/2017

Depression, seasonally affected or otherwise, may be the soul shunning the collective madness...

Smart Suits: Follow the Brains for Better Business

26/09/2017

Smart staffers: Why educated areas are good for business ...

Shake Those Chains – It’s Your Inalienable Right

18/08/2017

In a society dominated by money and its protection, your only rights are to shout impotently...

Tune in, Turn On, Don’t die with your novel still in you.

08/08/2017

One man's wisdom is another man's trite platitude, but who wants to spend their life guarding dust?...

The Better Part of Valour. On Leaving the USA (or Anywhere)

29/06/2017

Sometimes the best thing to do is up sticks and go...

We Don’t Need New Politics, We Need New Gods

15/06/2017

What deities should be placed before the God of Money?...

Trump’s Antics Abroad Would be Scary – If He Held the Strings

01/06/2017

Novelty Handshakes, Ketchup on Steak - Trump on Tour is Not Where the Power Lies...

Speak. Or Forever Hold Your Peace?

05/05/2017

Constant communication communicates nothing. Would it help to stop and think?...

Deep State, Media Vampirism and the MOAB Bomb

18/04/2017

With the MOAB, High Dollar Despotism And Perpetual War show off their latest toy...

The Secret of Staying Motivated (as Discovered by SCIENCE)

06/04/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”G/dropcaposhdarned liberal communists and their lethargy! Motivation is IMPORTANT, people! How are we going to SELL you stuff you...

Affordable Care – For BigPharma. Time to Escape the Duopoly

23/03/2017

The rubble of Trump's presidency will form fertile ground for resistance - if we act now....

A Nuremberg Rally of One

27/02/2017

No book burning is required when the masses of the consumer state do not read books....

Anti-Trump Protests? Yes Please. Pro-Democrats Protests? No Thanks.

26/01/2017

Anti-Trump protests will lead nowhere if allowed to be channeled into the service of the Democratic Party. ...

Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

24/01/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcap t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the...