Whoa.
Submitted by claymore on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 15:37.
Excerpt: Through advertising and marketing, the hologram combs the fields of instinct and human desire, arranging our wants and fears in the direction of commodities or institutions. No longer are advertising and marketing merely propaganda, which is all but dead. Digitally mediated brain experience now works far below the crude propaganda zone of influence, deep in the swamps of the limbic brain, reengineering and reshaping the realms of subjective human experience.
A Feast of Bullshit and Spectacle: The Great American Media Mind Warp
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This is why we can't have nice things.
...we are the hologram, because we created it. In a relentlessly cycling feedback loop, and uh, soon we won't need our physical bodies anymore as the holo-collective-thought will live on it's own and expand to other planets, like the star Sirius B where the Dogon originally came from as that's where the proto-thought was born.. Uh, shoot I'm bogarting this aren't I? Who wants some?
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In all seriousness, this isn't the first time I've come across that train of thought and I think it has a point.