Culture > October 29, 2008
Through the Glasses Darkly
What if the between-the-lines Republican message (don’t be afraid,
there will be no real change) is the true illusion?
By Slavoj Zizek <http://www.inthesetimes.com/community/profile/70>
Today, even the strongest advocates of diminishing the excessive
role of Washington accept the necessity of a state intervention that
is sublime in its unimaginable quantity.
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When the hero of John Carpenter’s 1988 /They Live/ puts on a pair of weird sunglasses that he has stumbled upon in an abandoned church, he notices a billboard that once invited us to a Hawaii beach holiday now simply displays the words:
“MARRY AND REPRODUCE.” Ad copy on another billboard — this one for a new color TV — says, “DON’T THINK, CONSUME!”
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