VL--IV, More, p. 72 ff Hollywoodization of America?
kelber at mindspring.com
kelber at mindspring.com
Fri Jan 9 10:45:18 CST 2009
Something I've wondered about on occasion. Doesn't government surveillance have some sort of mathematical limit? For every spy camera and listening post set up there has to be at least one person monitoring the received info. If we were all under surveillance all the time, wouldn't we all have to be employed in watching each other? Obviously, it's not done this way. Governments use the threat that you MIGHT be under surveillance to get people to behave. But if we know that we can't all be watched, then where's the threat? Or if we all were actually being watched, we wouldn't all arrest all of us... Fuck, it's mid-day and I haven't had my caffeine yet.
Laura
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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jan 9, 2009 11:14 AM
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>Subject: VL--IV, More, p. 72 ff Hollywoodization of America?
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>p.73 Flash had been Outlaw, now, no second chances to be 'part of the structure of governance'.
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> "nobody else around"--i.e "In the Midnight Hour"
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>p.73 Frenesi lived all of her formative years aware of a list of fake names....she hated and feared it....She enacted what she hated and feared . Once this societal 'betrayal' had entered the society, then some were doomed to enact it? Honesty was lost in the culture. ?
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> This personal betrayal is linked to TRPs themes of spying, surveillance, gov't lies?
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>TRP points to the McCarthy 50s, but he goes further--- to the origins of Hollywood? That fabricating 'dream factory".....links up with AtD sections here, it seems. By Vineland America, all of the fake "reality" is permeated by the movie/TV falseness.....??
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