Prior to the days of mass marketing, a cake was a truly special dessert/treat saved only for the weekends or special occasions. The reason for this is because making a cake from scratch is no easy process. It is time and labor intensive and can easily be ruined by a number of simple mistakes. Well in the 1950's along came the box cake. It made cake making easy enough for anyone to do any day of the week, and now, you can make a cake after work and still have time to serve it for dessert. In sociological terms this was the beginning of the detstuction of American society. This marks the beginning of the "expertizing" phase that has turned us into drones. Have prblems with your kids - go to a counselor, need an oil change - go to jiffy lube, need an opinion - watch the news. Big brother, and I don't necessarily mean the government persay, but the corporate controlled government/culture, has eroded away nearly every facet of our lives that we once controlled ourselves. They do it in the name of goodwill, don't whack your kid, that's abuse. They do it in the name of speed. Save time - hell most time saving services cost more money and just what will you do with this extra time? Go Spend More Money!!!!!!!!
The last and preahps the most insiduos "expertising" is the prepackaging of rebellion that the corporate world has presented to our youth and we have fed it to them since their childhood. The selling out of the 60's counter-culture to the corporate-culture left the late boomers and the early x-ers cold. We turned to music like punk rock, and the sex pistols, the pogues ans the ramoans replaced the 60's hipppie/psychodelic music. But punk was ugly and raw and its message was anger and lashing out. Having no means to advertise to us the corporate world left us alone, instaed it went after our ypunger siblings and now it has gone after our children and we are the blame. Anarchy symbols now grace the cover of note books, terms like commercial punk grace the air waves and it's all become meaningless drivel. How can a band call itself 'rage against the machine' and yet charge you corporate prices for their cds/dvds/videos, they may as well be Barney, they deliver the same message. This is not a white/black or rich/poor issue. Early rap was all political now it's all corporate sponsered drama as real as a soap opera. Face it, the only way to resist is to stop buying. Stop believing in the myths they market. I'm not saying not to enjoy music or games. What I'm saying is Wake up!!!!
You're not a rebel cause your pre-screened t-shirt says so, you're not ghetto if you make 30,000 a year. If your trying to climb the corporate ladder and drive a very expensive car your not underground, even if you'rer hat is sideways. Grow up, wake up, resist.
DP
