Thursday, June 21, 2012

Jason gets bamboozled by The YES MEN, feels stupid, and wants to punch a dead guy.

A fantastic article by everyone's favorite curmudgeon/cultural protector/theatre critic, Jason Rohrer. Contains harsh language and potentially inflammatory statements. Please don't click HERE if you think this might upset you.

Here's Jason:

Dear one,

For the past couple of weeks, I've been taken with the political theater that comes from meme culture.  I don't mean the cat-stuck-in-a-goldfish-bowl-talking-gibberish kind; to hell with that.  I agree that much Internet imagery seems designed to defeat the truism that a picture's worth a thousand words.  But some of it's pretty poignant.  I don't know, but it seems to me that in this regard, a few folks are doing a lot with very little.  Take the Yes Men, for example:

http://losangeles.bitter-lemons.com/2012/06/20/the-evil-that-meme-do/

Warning: political content.  Opinions.  Stupidity, mostly on my part.  Also contains links to a couple of my latest reviews.

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Love,

Jason 

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