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A vintage ad for Amway Nutrilite supplements; the illustration in the center of the ad has been replaced with a WPA mural depicting trade unionists rising up against capitalism.
Can you spot Lincoln?
More for the month of character medleys! This is days 26-30, the final group for this year:
Banshee (Shriek / Phantasm)
Spider-Smasher (Doppelganger / Amygdala)
Hellfire (Demogoblin / Abattoir)
Death Collector (Carrion / Tally Man)
Menace (Norman Osborn / Bane)
pluralistic.net/2024/10/29/hobbesian-slop/#cui-bono
A man lying in a hospital bed, wearing a sinister mind-control helmet. His hands are clenched into fists and he is grimacing. Through a hole in the wall we see a prancing vaudevallian, whose head has been replaced with the head of Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse avatar. Behind this figure is the giant red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' At the end of the bed stand a trio - Mom, Dad and daughter - in Sunday best clothes, their backs to us, staring at the mind-controlled man's face.
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Cryteria (modified)
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The We're Here group is visiting Double Things today.
Henry was lying on the bedroom floor and it made me realise how similar he is to our doorstop - lol
“I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious of my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important. And of course this is something which we may also do deliberately: give attention to nature in order to clear our minds of selfish care.” --Iris Murdoch
Quoted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sovereignty_of_Good
Iris Murdoch (1919 –1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality and the power of the unconscious. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch
via Naomi Klein en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger:_A_Trip_Into_the_Mirror_World
“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it's a transcendant experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears" --Zadie Smith
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith quoted in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger:_A_Trip_Into_the_Mirror_World
Portrait of Zadie Smith by David Shankbone on Wikimedia Commons adapted using the Wikipedia app w.wiki/ASCZ
“The problem in the age of big tech, the climate crisis, Covid lockdowns, online influencers and collapsed trust in "mainstream" politics and media is that everybody has their suspicions that they are being lied to and manipulated – and they're right. Where they disagree is on the identity of the liars and the purpose of the manipulation”
--William Davies reviews Naomi Klein's book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger:_A_Trip_Into_the_Mirror_World
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein review – a case of mistaken identity
www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/09/doppelganger-a-trip...
“When I joined Twitter and clicked on the little bell icon signifying my ‘mentions’, that was my initial thought: I was reading the graffiti written about me on an infinitely scrolling restroom wall.
As a frequently graffitied-about girl in high school, this felt both familiar and deeply harrowing. I instantly knew that Twitter was going to be bad for me — and yet, like so many of us, I could not stop looking. So perhaps if there is a message I should have taken from the destabilising appearance of my doppelganger, this is it. Once and for all, stop eavesdropping on strangers talking about you in this crowded and filthy global toilet known as social media.
I might have heeded my message, too. If COVID hadn't intervened”
Naomi Klein quoted from the final paragraph of Chapter 1 of her memoir Doppelganger: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger:_A_Trip_Into_the_Mirror_World
CC BY-SA portrait of Naomi Klein speaking at Brainwash Festival in Amsterdam in 2017 by Vera de Kok from Wikimedia Commons adapted using the Wikipedia app w.wiki/AQnu
