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Serbia Has The One-Up On World:

February 25th 2008 00:17

It's always nice to see a country still ready and able to take to the streets and set something on fire due to Political Belief.

It seems like in most "Modern" countries this kind of raging idealism has long since died. Where have all of your dreams gone my children? Why have you let them slip into the mellow, abiding, darkness?

Serbia wins my "Countries Still Kicking Ass And Taking Names Award Of The Week" for this week because they show that there is something more to life than simple bureaucratic ideals. There is something burning and blistering underneath and it's going to fester over.

Regardless of if you agree with Serbia or Kosovo, the point is simply that we should commend people with such fiery passion for their beliefs.

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When The Bullet Meets The Brain.

February 16th 2008 06:14

As time passes the frequency and brutal efficiency of school shootings and those who commit them will only increase. This cancerous infection that scars lives and bodies is the growing epidemic of the Human Disease.

It would be so simple and easy to blame those who stalk the halls and shadows with an arsenal and a mission. It would be convenient to assume that the problem ends when they go point-blank with their own malicious tools of destruction and take their own lives.

If only the world were so simple....

Yet it never seems to end there. The virus has manifested itself in it's most primal and violent form. Yet with the death of the host it does not end. The seething venom that courses in the tap of every faucet and the static of every television is not stopped. It is not cured. It does not wither or stall.

The toxin gushes forth, it boils and spills over, and more lives are lost and it tumbles onto the fresh soil. It sinks into our institutions and foundations and consumes logic and reason. It hungers without end, until we forget where it started or why our children froth at the mouth with a ravenous thirst. We forget who to blame and why they're guilty.

We ignore the mirror.

We become one with the plague.

I will grieve for the lives lost. I will wish them second life. Yet I will grin at the ignorance of the many. I will delight in their curiosity. I will watch as they prod the corpse and examine it's brain. I will smirk as they rot from the inside out.

I am the spirit of retribution. I am the lover of irony. I am that which knows the killer in each human disease, in each human beast. I am the one who sees the cannibal glutton in your eyes and heart. We are all so guilty.

Oh child. How beautiful, a massacre, you are.

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"T" Is For Terrorism And "M" Is For Marketing

February 9th 2008 01:39

In the great A-B-C's of modern media the line between terror and good business is virtually nonexistent. To frighten, terrify and genuinely demoralize your target audience can only solidify their need for your product. The more you prod at the back of their mind, the more uncomfortable they feel without you.

Perhaps I'm not doing justice to the nature of the business. Think of it like a recently healed wound. It used to gush and bleed but now it's healed up some and it's got a nice crusty,flaky scab over it. So you're a company with a product and you get yourself a nice, long, rusty skewer. Then you ever so gracefully cram that skewer into that scab over and over until it oozes blood and puss all over. So now the person who's bleeding needs a bandaid and of course they're going to pay you an extremely inflated price for it. After all, you're the one who caused the wound, you know what's best right?

The real trick to the business though is being tactful about it. You've gotta break their arm today and take them out for a beer the next. You're their best friend and their worst enemy at the same time.

So while every company would love to pitch an ad campaign like this at you:

The chances of you ever coming out of your house to actually buy the insurance are nil. Thus defeating the point of ever running the ad in the first place. However this ad is still pretty close to brilliant. If does exactly what any insurance company wants to do: Scare you to death so you stock up on your coverage.

So when someone blows up your country to scare your whole population into submission, is it really so different than someone barraging your mind with fears and insecurities to get you to fork over money?

Who are you more of afraid of? A culture who doesn't understand you and fears your way of life? Or perhaps someone who understands your culture so well they can herd you like sheep into their wallet of a slaughter-house?

Welcome To The Twilight Zone.

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