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CASH CULTURE IS A POOR CULTURE. CASH DOESN'T LAST. WHEN EVERYTHING IS MEASURED BY THE NUMBER$, EVERYTHING IS DONE BY THE NUMBER$. LIFE BECOMES $ECONDARY.
$PECTATOR$0CIETIE$ ARE POOR CULTURE$.
QUANTITY BECOMES MORE IMPORTANT THAN QUALITY. STANDARDS TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER CREATIVITY AND ORIGINALITY. DIVERSITY DISAPPEARS. COMMODITY METHOD TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER CONTENT. HACKS PREDOMINATE IN THE CULTURE INDUSTRY.
SO YOU GET THE FIFTH REMAKE OF MAN OF LA MANCHA, JAWS 8, RERUNS, RETURNS, REPEATS, REDUNDANCY, MEDIOCRITY; A GERIATRIC GUNSMOKE & STREETS OF SF.
AND YOU GET CENSORSHIP. IN PUBLISHING, IN THE NAT'L ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, IN TV, IN RADIO, IN MUSEUMS, IN CITY HALL, IN GALLERIES, IN LIB- RARIES. EVERY AGENCY AND COMMITTEE GETS INTO THE ACT. THE RESULT IS 90% SELF CENSORSHIP. A JOB AND SALARY IN THE CULTURE AND MEDIA INDUSTRIES BECOME MORE IMPORTANT THAN TRUTH, CREATIVITY, ACCURACY, ORIGINALITY, QUALITY, SELF CENSORSHIP TAKES OVER IN THE ARTIST AND PRODUCER.
RESULT: MORE RERUNS, REPEATS, REMAKES. REDUNDANCY. DEJA VU. EMPTINESS.
ADVERTISERS AND SPONSERS CONTROL THE CONTENT AND FORMATS OF THE CULTURE INDUSTRY. DON'T DO ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY OR YOU WILL LOSE YOUR FUNDING, OR YOUR JOB.
CORPORATIONS BUY AND CONTROL $3 BILLION WORTH OF ART PER YEAR. BU$INE$$ A$ U$UAL. YOU SOON SEE THE SIMILARITIES OF BUSINESS AND GOVT. FUNDED ART EVERY WHERE YOU GO. ITS ALL THE SAME. IT'S WHO YOU KNOW, NOT WHAT YOU DO.
CULTURE CLIQUES. CULTURETAINMENT, NEWSTAINMENT, SPORTSTAINMENT,ENTER- TAINMENT. CONTAINMENT. THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS PICK A STYLE AND STAY THERE FOR EVER. COUNTRY, MELLOW MOOD, MUSAK, JAZZ, MUSICALS, CLASSICAL, OPERA, THE REPEAT OVERLOAD IS DEADENING. MUSICALLY PEOPLE PICK A STATION AND STAY THERE FOR YEARS. THEY REINFORCE THE CLICHES AND MELODIES THEY LIKE AND THE MUSIC BECOMES BACKGROUND NOISE, TONE. IT JUST REINFORCES THEIR FUNCTION MODE ROUTINE FOR BUSINESS. BUSINESS AS USUAL. "LIVE" EVENTS SERVE THE SAME PURPOSE. JAZZ, COUNTRY AND CLASSICAL FESTS. THEY GET BIGGER AND BIGGER AND NOTHING NEW OCCURS. CLOSED CULTURE. SINCE OLDER PEOPLE HAVE MORE MONEY AND RESOURCES THEIR CULTURAL CON- DITIONING DOMINATES THE SOCIAL STAGES.
ALL YOU GET IS MINIMAL VARIATIONS IN STYLE. SOMETIMES A SMATTERING OF NOVELTY. BRANSON, MISSOURI, IS THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF TAINMENT. ITS THE NEW OLD COUNTRY MUSIC MECCA. COUNTRY STARS HAVE BUILT THEIR OWN MUSIC HALLS AND FILL THEM WITH MIDDLE AGED FA~S FOUR TIMES A DAY. THEY ARE MAKING $50 TO $80,000,000 A YEAR, EACH. THERE ARE TWENTY PLUS MUSIC HALLS. EVEN IF IT DOESN'T LAST FOREVER THE COUNTRY STARS WILL MAKE ENOUGH IN ONE YEAR TO COVER ALL COSTS AND RETIRE IN LUXURY. MONEY IS EVERYTHING. MUSIC IS NOTHING.
TOURI$M GENERATES $50 BILLION IN REVENUES FOR THE USA. IT KEEPS A LOT OF CASINO , RESORT AND HOTEL HACK QUALITY CULTURE STUMBLING ALONG.
HOTELS TOOK BIG LOSSES IN 1991 FOR LACK OF BUSINESS TRADE. BUT, RESORTS FOR TOURISTS AND THE MIDDLE CLASS DIDN'T SUFFER THAT MUCH.
STARFASCISM IS BIG BUSINESS IN AMERICA. TO MAKE A STAR EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO BE KEPT DOWN AND OUT. DIVERSITY IS DISCOURAGED. THE CULT OF THE INDIVIDUAL IS BIG BIZ. THE BUYING AND SELLING OF NAMES IS BIG BIZ. REGARDLESS OF CONTENT. BIG BUCKS AND GLAMOUR HYPE KEEP MILLIONS WISHING THEY WERE SOMEONE ELSE, AND WILLING TO PAY TO SEE OR HEAR THAT SOMEONE ELSE; OR BUY THEIR PRODUCTS. STARS CAN BE HYPED AND SOLD LONG AFTER THEY HAVE LOST THEIR VOICES OR ABILITIES. THEY CAN BE HYPED IN THE GRAVE TO MAKE MORE MONEY THAN WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE. ELVIS AND VAN GOGH ARE TYPICAL EXAMPLES.
THE CULTURE VULTURE$ WILL SPEND $20,000,000 ON A PAINTING JUST TO GENERATE A SPECULATOR MARKET WHICH WILL PRODUCE CASH FLOWS IN SIM- ILAR PRODUCTS. ITS JUST BUSINESS MAKING BU$INE$$.
SOTHEBYS, BUTTERFIELDS AND OTHER SLEEZY AUCTION HOUSES AS WELL AS THE GALLERIES BUY AND SELL ART AS INVESTMENT COMMODITIES. THEY PAY EDUCATED LIP SERVICE TO THE ARTIST AND PRODUCT QUALITIES WHILE DROOLING AND LUSTING OVER PROFITS. PLUS IT IS RISKY AND LIKE ANY GAMBLING BIZ THERE IS THE ALLURE OF DANGER AND ACTION. THEY CAN MAKE BAKE OR BREAK ANY ART OR ARTIST CAPRICIOUSLY. THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME, FOR MONEY.
COMMERCIAL CULTURE IS POOR CULTURE.
COMMERCIAL CULTURE IS CYNICAL CULTURE. IT TAKES PEOPLE NOWHERE.
STARFASCISM RESULTS IN PINNACLE PERSONALITIES LIKE WARHOL,LIBERACE, ROCK HUDSON, MADDONA, LIZ TAYLOR WHO AMASS FINANCIAL AND MATERIAL WEALTH THAT BECOMES OBSCENE IN THE FACE OF THE DIRE POVERTY AND SUFFERING OF THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, BY FEEDING ON THIER DELUSIONS, FEARS, PASSIONS, AND UNREALIZABLE DREAMS. THIS KIND OF CULTURE JUST TAKES PEOPLE AROUND THE BLOCK AND DROPS THEM.
SO, MICHAEL JACKSON MAKES A $40 MILLION DEAL WITH SONY. THE GRATEFUL DEAD MAKE $35 MILLION A YEAR. NEITHER GIVES BACK TO THE CULTURE OR PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM RICH, IN ANYWAY THAT LIFTS THOSE PEOPLE UP OR OUT OR TOWARDS ANYTHING HEALTHY AND ALIVE OR SOCIALLY PROGRESSIVE. ITS A DEATH CULTURE. DEAD END.
MA$$ CULTURE I$ A$$ CULTURE. PACKAGING, PRODUCT AND CONTROL ARE EVERYTHING. YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT IN THE LAST FORTY YEARS EVERY PLOT,SCENARIO, CHARACTER, RHYTHM, MELODY, STORY HAS BEEN REPLAYED WITH EVERY POSSIBLE TWIST AND NOVELTY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TIMES VIA MASS MEDIA PRO- DUCTION CAPABILITIES. NOVELTY BECOMES EVERYTHING. YET IT IS NOTHING. STYLE BECOMES EVERYTHING,YET IT IS NOTHING. NEWNESS BECOMES EVERYTHING, EVEN WHEN IT IS NOTHING. SUBSTANCE AND PURPOSE IS LOST.
A HUNGRY VOID IS CREATED AND MOST PEOPLE BURY THEMSELVES IN A STYLE OR ERA AND GO THROUGH A LIFETIME OF REPEATS. IT IS CULTURAL DEATH.
THE JAPANESE BOUGHT FOUR OF THE MAJOR MOVIE STUDIOS IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. LUCAS IS TRYING TO OWN ANY FUTURISTIC CUTURAL POTENTIALS OR FANTASIES. THEY ARE ALL DESPERATE FOR NEW MARKETS. AMERICANS HAVE SEEN EVERY SCRIPT AND MOVIE TEN TIMES. IN 1991 HOLLYWOOD WEATHERED THE RECESSION BY MAKING MONEY ON BRUTAL DUMB VIOLENCE MOVIES.
THEY WILL PRODUCE SOME MORE IN '92. THESE MOVIES LIKE AGGRESSOR SPORTAINMENT FEEDS ON THE FRUSTRATIONS AND DRIVES OF A SOCIALLY CONDITIONED SOCIETY. PEOPLE WHO "PERFORM" BEHAVIORALLY EVERYDAY TO THE POINT OF BECOMING MECHANICAL, THIRST FOR SPONTANEITY AND "LIFE", EVEN IF IT IS DEADLY STUPID AND VIOLENT. ANYTHING TO BREAK THE MONOTONY AND FRUSTRATION OF CONTROLLED POLITE SOCIAL FUNCTIONING.
THIS HAS ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE PHENOMENON OF THE MODERN ROMAN ARENA. WATCHING LIFE AND DEATH "LIVE" ON TV, WATCHING LIVE COURT CASES, IN WHICH REAL EMOTIONAL, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL SUFFERING OR DEATH OCCUR, TITILATES THE JADED FADED MINDS OF A SATURATED SPECTATOR SOCIETY. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE APPROVED OF THE GULF WAR SO MUCH. IT WASN'T A MATTER OF POLITICAL APPROVAL OR PRINCIPLES. THE JADED SPECTATORS HAD THEIR BLOOD LUST AROUSED. THEY GOT TO SEE REAL LIFE & DEATH HORROR BEING "ACTED" OUT BY ROBOTIC AND COMPUTORIZED GLADIATORS. THEY WANTED EVEN MORE, AND THEY DID NOT WANT IT TO STOP. THERE WAS A MASS DEPRESSION WHEN IT DID STOP BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE FACED WITH HAVING TO RETURN TO A SOCIAL MECHANICAL HUMDRUM THAT IS PERSONALLY SUFFOCATING.
I DON'T THINK ANY OF THIS WAS LOST ON PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA AND CULTURE INDUSTRIES OR THE PEOPLE IN POWER GLOBALLY. I THINK SIMILAR "REAL" DEATH EVENTS WILL BE PERIODICALLY ORCHESTRATED FOR PROFIT AND TO SATIS FY THE BLOOD AND ADVENTURE LUSTS AND FRUSTRATIONS OF THE MASSES. ALL OF THIS WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED BY GOVT. & BUSINESS, RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL LEADERS. MA$$PECTATOR$0CIETIE$ ENJOY WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE SUFFER AND DIE HORRIBLY. THE MORE HORRIBLY THE BETTER. THESE KINDS OF THEATRICKAL ORCHESTRATED EVENTS WILL REPLACE REDUNDANT CULTURAL STAGING.
THIS IS ALL JUST PART OF THE NORMAL DEGENERATIVE SIDE EFFECTS OF MASS INDUSTRIALISM, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE.
IT IS THE DEHUMANIZING SIDE OF LIFE IN GENERAL BEING CHEAPENED, BY MASS SOCIETIES. THEY LOVE WATCHING COPS KILL PEOPLE ON "LIVE" TV.
THIS HAS RESULTED IN THE GROWTH OF "LIVE" COP SHOWS, 911 SHOWS, TOPCOPS, ETC. ETC. IN THE LAST YEAR. LIKE THE ANNOUNCER SAYS, "EVERYTHING ELSE IS FICTION". BUT, EVEN AFTER JUST A YEAR OF THEM, PEOPLE ARE GETTING BORED. THE SHOWS ARE RUNNING REPEATS. THE AUDIENCE BEGAN TO SEE TOO MANY REAL REPEATS, AS IF THE COPS ARE JUST MAKING ALL THIS UP. IT WAS BEGINNING TO WEAR THIN. PEOPLE WERE BEGINNING TO "SEE THROUGH" THE HYPE ABOUT CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. BAD FOR LAW AND ORDER AND SOCIAL MORALE.
POSSIBLE OR REAL PARTICIPATION ACCOUNTS FOR THE POPULARITY OF GAME SHOWS AND 'AMERICAS MOST WANTED'. PARTICIPATING IN ANYTHING IS A VERY REAL HUNGER IN SPECTATORSOCIETIES.
IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIETIES DAILY EXISTENCE IS LITTLE MORE THAN ROUTINE (LEARNED) MECHANICAL FUNCTIONING. DRAB RESPONSIBILITIES, REAL DEPRESSION AND BORDOM. REAL LIFE IS A GAME. THE "PLAYERS"MAKE THE BIG BUCKS IN THE ARTS, SPORTS, BUSINESS, GOVT..THEY ARE GLORIFIED. SPORTS HAVE BECOME ENTERTAINMENT. NEWS IS PACKAGED FOR ENTERTAINMENT. REAL LIFE IS PACKAGED FOR ENTERTAINMENT. EVERYTHING BECOMES "UNREAL" THE SPECTATORSOCIETY MASS DIGESTS AND HOMOGENIZES EVERYTHING. IT ALL BE- COMES NOTHING. OF COURSE ALL OF THIS IS VERY SICK ,DEADENING & DEADLY. IT IS ALSO SELF PERPETUATING AND SELF EXPANDING.
. IN THE GAME SOCIETY, ATHLETES BECOME 'PERFORMERS', BUSINESSMEN,GENERALS, -' AND POLITICIANS BECOME PERFORMERS. PERFORMERS BECOME POLITICIANS.EASY.
.IN ANY TV CULTURE THE AVERAGE CHILD BY AGE TWELVE HAS INTELLECTUALLY EXPERIENCED EVERY HUMAN INTERACTION VARIABLE AT LEAST 50 TIMES. THIS IS NOT REAL EXPERIENCE. REAL EXPERIENCES TEND TO CONTRADICT THE TV HUMAN ROLE EXPERIENCES OR BE INTERWOVEN WITH THEM BECAUSE THE VIEWER AS WELL AS PEERS ARE CONSTANTLY TRYING ON THE ROLES THEY PERCIEVE. BUT, THE ARTIFICIALLY ACQUIRED EXPERIENCES DETER THE MIND AND THE IN- DIVIDUAL FROM EVER CHRONOLOGICALLY OR NATURALLY LEARNING SELF AND OTHERS EXPERIENTIALLY IN REAL LIFE. WHAT THIS DOES TO THE MIND, CHAR- ACTER, PERSONALITY OF THE PERSON IS QUITE COMPLEX. WHAT IT DOES TO A SOCIETY CUMULATIVELY WILL PROBABLY NOT BE KNOWN UNTIL IT IS ALL OVER OR TOO LATE.
BASICALLY IT RESULTS IN AN EXPERIENTIALLY IMPOYERISHED PEOPLE, AFRAID TO EXPERIENCE OR PARTICIPATE DIRECTLY IN ANYTHING SPONTANEOUS OR ALIVE. PARTICIPATION IS FRIGHTENING AND OFTEN A LETDOWN COMPARED TO THE THEA- TRICAL OR PACKAGED EXPERIENCE.
CULTURE THAT PACIFYS AND REINFORCES STEREOTYPES AND NORMS IS ACCEPTABLE. CULTURE THAT GLORIFIES THE GAME, PLAYERS ETC. ARE ACCEPTABLE. CULTURE THAT REINFORCES CYNICISM ABOUT REAL LIFE IS ACCEPTABLE. CULTURE THAT REINFORCES BELIEFS OR PREVAILING FADS & VALUES IS OKAY.
CULTURE THAT PRODUCES A MESSAGE CRITICIZING ANY OF THE ABOVE IS SUP- PRESSED AND MARGINALIZED, CENSORED. CULTURE THAT IS ANTITHETICAL TO PREVAILING MASS CULTURE IS TREATED WITH CYNICISM AND SUPPRESSED. CULTURE THAT IN ANY WAY THREATENS THE GAME OR PROFITS IS DESTROYED. CULTURE THAT LEADS TO REAL EXPERIENCES, PARTICIPATION, SEQUENTIAL NATURAL AND COOPERATIVE OR HEALTHY LIYING IS MARGINALIZED. ANY CULTURE THAT REFLECTS THE REAL EVENTS LIFE OR CULTURE OF OTHER NATIONS AND PEOPLES IS MARGINALIZED.
WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF MONEY IN A CASH CULTURE YOU FIND OUT REAL SOON THERE IS NOTHING GOING ON.
NO ALTERNATIVE. NO OTHER POSSIBILITY. NEGATIVELAND.
BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SUB CULTURES ARISE. MILLIONS FLOAT AROUND IN THE MUSIC, THEATRE, LITERARY STREAMS OF THE SUBCULTURE INTELLECT- UALLY FOR YEARS; WITHOUT EVER BASICALLY LIVING DIFFERENTLY OR NOT TOTALLY ENSLAVED TO THE POWER STRUCTURE OF THE MAIN CULTURE.
SO YOU GET 15 YEARS OF PUNK AND NEW WAVE TOTALLY IGNORED. AS IF IT NEVER EXISTED, AND IT NEVER TOOK ANYONE ANYWHERE ELSE. THE SAME WITH PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE. SO, THINGS LIKE REGGAE BECOME MINI-CULTURE GO ROUNDS.
HEAYY METAL SOLD LIKE CRAZY SO YOU HAD 20-30 MILLION YOUTH RAGING AROUND WITH ANGRY MESSAGES AND POUNOING SOUNDS IN THEIR HEADS ALL DAY WHO NEVER REALLY INDIVIDUALLY OR COLLECTIVELY DID ANYTHING TO OVERTHROW OR REPLACE THE MAINSTREAM POWER THAT DROVE THEM TO ANGER AND SOCIAL FRUSTRATION. AN ANGRY CULTURE GO ROUND.
WHENEVER ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL FORMS THREATEN TO REALLY REPLACE OR DESTROY THE EXISTING SICK CULTURE GO ROUND, IT WILL BE TOTALLY SUPPRESSED OR DESTROYED BY PEOPLE IN POWER.
ORGANIZED CRIME HAS A PERCENTAGE OF AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT. MOVIES, VIDEO ARCADES, RESORTS, CASINOS, THEATRICAL AGENCIES. ALL OF THIS IS PRETTY WELL COVERED TODAY.
THE JAPANESE HAVE BOUGHT INTO A BIG SLICE OF THE LEISURE INDUSTRY IN THE LAST TEN YEARS.
90% OF ALL U.S. CULTURE DEALS ENTIRELY WITH MALE FEMALE EMOTIONAL AND SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS. INTERWOVEN WITH THAT IS A 50% MIX OF MILITARY OR POLICE OR COWBOYS VS THE BAD GUYS. 5% OF U.S. CULTURE IS CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS ORIENTED. 1% OF ALL U.S. CULTURE IS NON-GENDER,NON-VIOLENT SITUATIONIST. 3% OF U.S. CULTURE IS ALTERNATE CULTURE OR POLITICALLY PROGRESSIVE.
RAP GROUPS HAVE FOLLOWED IN THE PATH OF PUNK AS THE MAIN TARGET OF SUPPRESSION, OBSTRUCTION AND CENSORSHIP ; IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS. THE SEXUALLY AND POLITICALLY EXPLICIT RAP, LIKE PUNK THREATENS THE SICK STATUS QUO IN AMERICA. EVERY EFFORT IS MADE TO "CONTAIN" IT,CONTROL IT, NEUTRALIZE IT, OR PRETIFY IT.
IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FROM TOP TO BOTTOM IS ROTTEN WITH CRIME, DRUGS, SEXUAL BRIBERY, MANIPULATION,ETC.
A RECENT SOCIAL TREND THAT IS GROWING ,PARTLY AS A RESULT OF ALIENATION WITH SOCIAL FORMS AND CANNED CULTURE IS "WILDING". INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS GOING OUT IN THE STREETS AND COMMITTING WILD ACTS OF VIOLENCE AND MAY- HEM . YOUNG MALES LIVING ON THE POVERTY LEVEL ARE MAKING UP THEIR OWN FUN. NEO-PRIMITIVE ANTI-SYSTEM WARRIORS. THIS IS NOT UNIQUE TO THE U.S. IT IS HAPPENING IN A VARIETY OF INDUSTRIALIZED STATES WITH LARGE POVERTY BASES.
THE AVERAGE U.S. CHILD SEES 12,000 TV MURDERS BY TEEN AGE.
95% OF AMERICAN FAMILIES OWN AT LEAST ONE COLOR TV. 75% HAVE A VCR. PRODUCT INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS LIKE DIGITAL TAPES VS CD, OR HDTV ARE HYPED TO EQUATE PRODUCTS WITH NEW OR IMPROVED CULTURE. AMERICANS WATCH AN AVERAGE OF 25HOURS OF TV PER WEEK.
CORPORATE FUNDING IE CONTROL OF PBS HAS RESULTED IN CLASSICAL ROMANCE DOMINATING THE PROGRAMMING. CINEMA VERITE HAS BEEN CUT DRAMATICALLY.
WIDESPREAD NEPOTISM IS ANOTHER ROTTEN FACTOR IN THE CULTURE INDUSTRY.
THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE TEND TO CLING TO A STYLE OF CULTURE FOR LIFE. OF COURSE THEY LOSE "LIFE". THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE TEND TO LIVE IN THE PAST,CULTURALLY. A SMALLER PERCENTAGE TOY WITH FUTURISTIC CULTURE AND FANTASY. THE TRAGEDY IS THAT FEW IF ANY LIVE IN THE PRESENT,CULTURALLY.
WHETHER IT'S IN BALI OR TUCSON, JAPAN OR KENYA; TOURI$M AND COMMERCIAL- ISM HAVE RESULTED IN A GLOBAL CANNIBAL~ZING AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF INDIGENOUS RITUAL AND CULTURE. THE INTRINSIC HUMAN TEACHINGS AND PRO- CESS ARE ADULTERATED AND TRIVIALIZED TO CREATE GREATER SPECTATOR SEN- SATION AND APPEAL. COMMUNITY AND INDIVLDUAL VALUES,PRACTICE AND CUL- TURAL LIFE ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DIMINISHED. THIS LEAVES THE PEOPLE OF EACH CULTURE SPIRITUALLY AND HUMANLY BEREFT OF CONTENT AND SATISFACTION, AS WELL AS NATURAL DIGNITY AND IDENTITY. JUST LIKE THE VOIDED CULTURAL GHOUL$ FROM THE ADVANCED $PECTATOR$0CIETIE$ WHO PREY ON THEM FOR NOVELTY.GLOBAL TOURI$M GENERATES $3LION IN REVENUES PER YEAR.
FEDERAL BANKRUPTCY JUDGES ANNOUNCES HE MAY ORDER CLOSING OF UPI, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL-NEWS WIRE SERVICE. MARCH 5, 1992. THEY ARE ONE OF THE BIG THREE, AP, & REUTERS ARE THE OTHERS. UPI PROJECTS $100,000 A MONTH LOSSES THROUGH '92. JUDGE GIVES THEM TIL APRIL TO SATISFY CREDITORS.
CAROLCO FILMS BORDERING ON BANKRUPTCY.
GAYS LESBIANS PROTEST SPATE OF FILMS THEY SAY CREATE BAD IMAGE.
EXAMPLES OF CHANGING THE FACTS BY ' SEASONAL ADJUSTING':
HOUSING STARTS WERE DOWN 20.1% BEWTEEN OCTOBER '91 AND FEB. '92, AFTER 'ADJUSTMENT' THEY WERE REPORTED AS UP 20.2%. 2.4 MILLION ACTUAL JOBS DISSAPPEARED FROM NON-FARM PAYROLS IN JAN. '92. BUT THE DEPT. OF LABOR REPORTED A SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT LOSS OF ONLY 150,000 JOBS. ACTUAL FACTORY ORDERS FELL 5.9% IN JANUARY BUT AFTER 'ADJUSTMENT THEY WERE REPORTED UP 0.4% RETAIL SALES WERE REPORTED UP 0.6% FOR JAN. '92 AFTER SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT. ACTUALLY SALES WERE DOWN 23.6% FROM JAN. 1990.
SILENCE OF LAMBS WINS ALL THE OSCARS. ORION PICTURES HAS FILED FOR CHAPTER 11. THEY CLAIM $1 BILLION IN ASSETS AND $970 MILL IN DEBTS. SILENCE WAS ONE OF THE FILMS GAYS PROTEST FOR DE- PICTION OF BI-SEXUAL AS A SERIAL KILLER.
THE CULTURETAINMENT INDUSTRY CONTINUED HYPING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST FOR ITS PRODUCTS AND FANTASY.
THERE ARE 30 MILLION VIDEO GAMES IN U.S. HOMES. IT IS A $6 BILLION A YEAR BIZ. CHILDREN SPEND AN AVERAGE OF 5 HRS A WEEK PLAYING. THE ACTION IS 99% VIOLENT MALE-AGGRESSIVE. THERE IS ONLY 1 FEMALE VID ARCADE GAME CALLED 'BARBIE'.
5-2/3-92, L.A., RIOTING AND LOOTING AND SHOOTING AT POLICE CONTINUE, ANNOUNCED ARRESTS GO FROM 6000 ON SATURDAY TO 9000 TOTAL ON SUNDAY. PASADENA-SUNDAY, PEOPLE FIRE ON POLICE HELICOPTER, GROUNDING IT. FIRE FIGHT ON THE GROUND RESULTS IN COPS KILLING INNOCENT BYSTANDER. 800 TROOPS ARE SENT INTO LA. WHAT IS TAKING PLACE IS A WAR, REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THE MEDIA WENT BACK TO SPORTS AND STANDARD PROGRAMMING. STOPPED REPORTING FROM INSIDE THE WAR ZONE. THEY STARTED SHOWING PEOPLE IN CHURCHES, VOLUNTEERS REBUILDING, CLEANING UP. REPEATING THAT THINGS HAVE RETURNED TO NORMAL. THE MEDIA PLAYED UP THE SMALL MINORITY MERCHANT VICTIMS FOR SYMPATHY. THE MEDIA PORTRAYED THE INVOLVED IN THE REBELLION AS CRIMINALS AND THUGS. THE MEDIA IS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE SUB-HUMAN CONDITIONS OF POVERTY AND INEQUALITY THAT ARE THE CAUSE ANO HELL OF SURVIVING IN AMERICAS GHETTOS. THE MEDIA IS NOT TALKING ABOUT THE REVOLUTIONARY ACTIONS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE REBELLION. THE MEDIA IS MAKING IT LOOK, (BY OMMISSION) THAT THIS IS NOT HAPPENING. HAPPY TALK NEWS IS HYPING THE IDEA THAT HONEST DECENT PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED, ANGUISHED AND CONFUSED ABOUT WHY THIS IS HAPPENING SUCH PEOPLE " THE MAJORITY" CONDEMN THE KING ACQUITTAL DE- CISION AND THE REBELLIOUS RESPONSE. THEY DON'T SEE THE NEED FOR VIO- LENCE AND LOOTING. THEY THINK THE.PROBLEMS CAN BE SOLVED NON-VIOLENTLY THROUGH ELECTORAL OR TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONALIZED MECHANISMS FOR RE- FORM.
THE MEDIA IS PUTTING A VEIL OF MIS-INFORMATION AND DIS-INFORMATION AND MIS-DIRECTION OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE REVOLUTION THE SAME WAY THEY DID CONCERNING THE EVENTS IN THE GULF WAR.
USA-MEDIA-FACTS.
REPLACING ONE IMAGE WITH ANOTHER. SUBSTITUTING ONE PROGRAM FOR THE REAL THING. THE EVENT BECOMES A MOVIE, IT IS NO LONGER REAL. IT ALL BECOMES SUBJECTIVE, SUBJECT TO THE INTERPRETATION OF WHOM- EVER CONTROLS THE CAMERAS, THE MICROFONES OR THE AIRWAYS. THE MEDIA IS FOCUSING ON THE RACIAL CONFLICT BETWEEN KOREANS AND BLACKS. THE MEDIA IS FOCUSING ON THE KING DECISION AND INJUSTICE BY POLICE BUT IGNORING THE ECONOMIC F'RECONDITIONS.
5-13-92, FED JUDGE OKAYS $6 MILLION BUYOUT OF UPI BY PAT ROBERTSONS CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK.
JUNE 92, ICE TS' MUSIC BEING BANNED FROM SOME STATES, MANY MUSIC CHAIN STORES.
CLINTON ATTACKS SISTER SOULJAH FOR LYRICS.
ARAB BROADCASTING GROUP BUYS UPI.
84% OF AMERICANS GET THEIR NEWS FROM TV.
NETWORKS AND CABLE LOST MONEY ON THE OLYMPIC COVERAGE '92.
29 CORPORATIONS OWN OVER 50% OF ALL MAJOR MEDIA IN THE USA. THIS MEANS THE BIGGEST. THE REMAINDER OF INDEPENDANTS COPY THE MAINSTREAM FOR A PIECE OF THE PUBLIC DOLLAR.
THERE ARE 40,000 VIDEO SHOPS IN THE USA.
THERE ARE 10,000 R RATED FLIX. THEY GROSS $4,000,000 A YEAR.
VIDEO SALES AND RENTALS ARE A $10 BILLION A YEAR INDUSTRY.
SF BAY AREA IS 60% POOR AND PEOPLE OF COLOR. FUNDING FOR THE ARTS IS 90% WHITE UPPER CLASS. THE SAME IN L.A. ETC. ETC. THE HANDMAIDENS TALE WAS BANNED FROM THE COTATI CA. PUBLIC LIBRARY.
THE NEA REGULARLY CENSORS ARTISTS BEFORE FUNDING.
FEMINISTS COMPLAIN THEY ARE CENSORED BY LARGE PUBLISHERS.
SEPT. '92,METALLICA AND GUNS & ROSES FANS DO $30,000 DAMAGE TO THE BASEBALL INFIELD AT THE OAKLAND COLLISEUM CONCERT.
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