Monday, March 03, 2003

Brian, you have to change you name yourself to PimpBot 5000, I can't do it for you.

se·mi·ot·ic
Pronunciation: -'ä-tik
Variant(s): or se·mi·ot·ics /-tiks/
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural semiotics
Etymology: Greek sEmeiOtikos observant of signs, from sEmeiousthai to interpret signs, from sEmeion sign, from sEma sign
Date: 1880
: a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics
- semiotic adjective
- se·mi·o·ti·cian /-&-'ti-sh&n/ noun
- se·mi·ot·i·cist /-'ä-t&-sist/ noun

Read Marshall Mcluhan. I'm currently reading Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. I'm in the chapter on media "hot" and "cold."
We have to put the magnifying spyglass back to the mixed-corporate media beast. Otherwise it will keep using us (human beings and our drama) as content. We are more than the content that is acted out daily in the Android Meme. The media uses us now purely as content now, nothing more. It is a living, organic machine that eats our dramas and replays them back to us in a satirical way.

Holy shit, I watched a great movie about the Kennedy assasination and conspircies called "Winter Kills," put out in 1979. Brilliantly written and acted. See also, The Manchurian Candidate.

And, Hillary and Bill are making sure that the democratic candidates are pathetic and weak so they fail against the horribly performing Furor Bush. This places Hillary and Bill in a position to "save" the democratic party for Hillary's eventual Presidency. Remember also, that the Bushes and the Clintons are good friends and agree on most issues, but the media wants you to believe otherwise.

The Colonel Signing off

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