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What Lies Beneath: Privileged Grotesques, Ordinary Monsters and the Iraqi Deathscape.

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To reverse this situation: Now is the time to drag the lies of the corporate state into the sunshine where they will writher to dust. We are not powerless: We live in a world where our collective, hidden intentions are made manifest by our outward actions. This is why Gothic -- even b-movie -- metaphors are not an overwrought description of our present condition. Ergo, by the vehicle of cultural collaboration, we are a nation of world-destroying, b-movie monsters -- we are a hack-scripted, second-billed feature at the drive-in movie of existence -- a laughed-off-the-big-screen of the cosmos, box-office poison of a people.

We are soul-sucking creatures of kitsch. Flesh-eating zombies of conformity. Road-rage werewolves. Right-wing, talk show demons whose wrathful voices rage into empty air. Hungry ghosts wandering the aisles of supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurant chains and the food courts of shopping malls. We are: The Fat, Mindless Blobs That Ate the Planet.

To survive, first, we must find the monster within, then drive a stake through its heart.

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Very good, Sir. But remember the price of herrings by Mark Sashine on Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:32:08 PM
To paraphrase (and with apologies to) Bob Dylan, by Phil Rockstroh on Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:59:01 PM
I did not invent the quote by Mark Sashine on Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 1:17:27 PM
Sorry for the confusion by Phil Rockstroh on Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 1:30:10 PM
thaz right by k kelly on Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 3:11:12 PM
Thank you by carl on Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 4:01:46 PM
Thank you by carl on Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 4:15:48 PM
Phil... by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo on Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 5:04:03 PM