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When I saw the new 7-Up commericals, which intimate that evil thought police monitor kids and try to get them to buy products. (Duh! It's the basis of the free market system!) Okay, I'll buy that. What got my nut-sack in a twist was the commericals solution: 'Kids, if you want to fight the power of the Man, don't drink his Gestapo sports drinks, drink 7-Up, It's the Un!!" Like 7-Up is bottled in some jungle shack by a bunch of Shining Path guerrillas and all proceeds go towards buying Stinger missiles. It's one giant, multi-national conglomerate attempting to get kids to stop patronizing another multi-national conglomerate. This doesn't really come as a shock, but I guess was infuriates me is that consumption is so much the currency of existence, and true dissent has been watered down to wacky web sites and ribald Bill Clinton T-shirts, that the only way anybody feels they can 'rebel' is to change their buying patterns.
There, I feel much better. Now I can postpone my clocktower kill spree for at least another week.
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