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"American God" - Ink on Card Stock - 8.5" X 11"“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
― Frank Zappa
“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just keep your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.”
― Frank Zappa
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Money = God.
Bankers = Priests.
Leity = Consumers.
Workers = Daemons.
Atlas Shrugged = The Bible.
Consumerism is a religion.
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A interesting thought
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Our consumerist world can also be compared to Airstrip One under Ingsoc...
Prolefeed = adverts
Big Brother = the Elite
Inner Party = bankers
Outer Party = Randroids & economists who support trickle-down theory
Emmanuel Goldstein = Pariah states (who are just as bad)
Bellyfeel = the folly that dictates that our form of "capitalism" is working
Thoughtcrime = rebellion against the current order
Room 101 = societal rejection
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1984 is one of my favorite books...
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Ah, the parallels which one can draw between its society and ours...
...they are uncannily similar.
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They are - but - what do you think of brave new world?... I find the similarities there even more appropriate....
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After reading a brief summary of the plot of that book, I think you are partially right. The thing is, people are not exactly preprogrammed in our society - it's just that they are moulded during childhood (for example, schools are employee factories and not educational institutes as many would think of them.
I guess that some of us just refuse to be moulded by the Elite. Like me. Heck, do you know of anyone who thinks that they're an anthropomorphic animatronic chicken?
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nope - not a one
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Yep, Frank Zappa knew that consumerist ideology was about social control as the late George Carlin did.
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Well anybody with a brain would like their work.
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Actually, I'm American and I I worship Great Cluck, The Feathered God Who Gave His Only Begotten Egg To Save Mankind From Our Sins.
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Lol... nice... I'm glad you have found such profound salvation
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I know that if I follow his Sacred Cluckings, my soul will roost forever in the Holy Henhouse. 
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hahahahaha - thats pretty awesome
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I kind of imagined Debt as the weight on the figures leg in this piece....
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Hehehe!
Look what I found,hehe!
Very similair idea to the colab we did!
dagaizm.deviantart.com/art/New…
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