lying has always been around in artisan form, so to speak, it was after anna freud and bernays got together and mixed the potions to form propaganda to fit television, that lying became an industrial process, with every new medium since co-opted to become part of the conveyor belt of bullshit that covers most of the audio-visual sphere, with pretty much only these intertubes allowing some truths to slip through the mesh, here and there, now and then.

watch 'madmen', if you haven't, they nail the era to a T, the sleek pseudo-perfection propounded as the new 'normal', attainable one more consumer item away, a prostitution of creative imagination more cynical and sophisticatedly manipulative than anything up to then.

psychologically the outside of the box became more important than what was in it, so the ounce of flour and pinch of baking powder became 'aunt jemima's pancake mix' (value added 500%), and now we get regurgitated fascism served up brightly wrapped in gaudy packages of 'freedom brand', 'democracy-with-new-ingredients' etc.

cons have been around for ever, this was a weapon of mass destruction that was cooked up, (one part freud to two parts goebbels), as much or more than anything out of los alamos.

darkness at noon...

this was the age when brain-washing became a household word, inspired also partly by stories about oriental torture techniques designed to drive people out of one identity into another, better shaped cog. the 'twilight zone' and hitchcock's heyday provided a cultural backdrop to this mass alienation, which has now become the norm, the matrix in which we swim, the dread anglo disease... been down so long, it looks like up to me.

ronald laing saw it quite clearly, bless 'im!

george orwell saw it coming better than anyone and tried so to warn us.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~