‘Thou still unravish’d bride of quietnessThat’s the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising.
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time ---‘
The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down. There are only so many people capable of putting words together that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to earn a very good living in advertising by exercising this capability, lyric poetry was left to untalented screwballs who had to shriek for attention and compete by eccentricity.
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Ep 99 [Percenter] Can the Revolution Be Advertised?
We discuss the anti-commercialism of #OWS and how in some cases it’s unwarranted. We’ve got our own Iphone app; and how come it took us so long to get addicted to Angry Birds? And from our mailbox, is Driftglass’s anonymity getting in the way of his message? If so, he can be bought! More at ProfessionalLeft.blogspot.com
Links for this episode:
- Anti-facebook gets venture capital
Da' money goes here:
1 comment:
An iPhone app? Dammit, I'm old school; I've got a BlackBerry.
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