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August 12, 2016 11:45 AM   Subscribe

"TECHNOLOGICAL TENTACLES CONTROL US:
In the form of likes, hashtags, imagery and sounds.
It’s our turn to wake up and recognize.
It’s time to think for ourselves and #CONSUME our own thoughts, not what they tell us.
We must CONSUME or we will be CONSUMED."

Hal Hefner
posted by Johnny Wallflower (16 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
Warning, flashing image on links.
posted by strixus at 11:51 AM on August 12, 2016


what happened to eat or be eaten?
posted by Postroad at 11:54 AM on August 12, 2016


I guess with They Live being 28 years old a whole slew of people don't know where this idea is taken from, but to me it feels like direct appropriation, even if it's nicely applied.
posted by furtive at 11:56 AM on August 12, 2016 [2 favorites]


It’s time to think for ourselves and #CONSUME our own thoughts, not what they tell us.
We must CONSUME or we will be CONSUMED."


Huh. I always try to remind myself that I need to Create, not just Consume.
posted by nubs at 11:58 AM on August 12, 2016


Get your anticonsumerist T-shirts, mugs, beach towels, and toilet seat covers here.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 12:00 PM on August 12, 2016 [8 favorites]


"TECHNOLOGICAL TENTACLES CONTROL US:

Flagged as offensive to cephalopods.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 12:09 PM on August 12, 2016 [5 favorites]


Get your anticonsumerist T-shirts, mugs, beach towels, and toilet seat covers here.

I can't decide if the ability to buy this stuff as merchandise is ironic or satiric or what. I want to feel like it's part of the artistic statement being made.
posted by nubs at 12:12 PM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


Yeah, I don't know, I'm all for artists making a living and I hesitate to take potshots at people for it. But most of the 'statement being made' seems REEEEally easy and obvious. I guess I'm mad when nobody says it, and I'm mad when somebody says it. I'll just see myself out.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 12:22 PM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


Own your pwn
posted by otherchaz at 12:23 PM on August 12, 2016


It’s time to think for ourselves and #CONSUME our own thoughts, not what they tell us.

I MUST THINK FOR MYSELF AND #CONSUME MY OWN THOUGHTS NOT WHAT THEY TELL ME
posted by happyroach at 12:34 PM on August 12, 2016 [3 favorites]


But most of the 'statement being made' seems REEEEally easy and obvious.

Agreed. It's as if Hefner watched They Live and thought it was too subtle.
posted by ejs at 12:34 PM on August 12, 2016


HAPPYROACH YOU ARE ACCEPTED
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 12:52 PM on August 12, 2016 [2 favorites]


But most of the 'statement being made' seems REEEEally easy and obvious.

Agreed. It's as if Hefner watched They Live and thought it was too subtle.


The Society of the Spectacle yadda yadda yadda.
posted by deadaluspark at 1:26 PM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


This is slightly less than one degree of abstraction removed from the "Mario Brothers drawn in the style of Pokémon" shirts that colonized and eventually overran the legitimately talented graphic designers at shirt.woot.com.
posted by radicalawyer at 1:27 PM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


It's Friday so please be sure not to eat a hot dog bun. Thanks.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 1:50 PM on August 12, 2016 [1 favorite]


guess with They Live being 28 years old a whole slew of people don't know where this idea is taken from, but to me it feels like direct appropriation, even if it's nicely applied.


He does credit They Live and Animal Farm as direct inspiration in the last link.
posted by Omnomnom at 3:09 PM on August 12, 2016


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