The Word on the Street

Often the corporate media will speak to the people on the street; the everyday folk with their everyday ideas and beliefs. Perhaps a T.V. news article will involve a reporter asking questions to passing pedestrians to source their *so expert* of opinions.

But what can the average member of the public say but to repeat ideas mechanically absorbed through repetitive mass media campaigns? Propaganda through indoctrination: the witless pedestrian says nothing of originality; can say no idea truly their own.

Then their bland platitudes make it to the final edit; their repeating of corporate propaganda is propagated on the evening news, their valueless words treated like wisdom, with reverence and a serious nod of approval from the reporter.

And of course, the reporter never asks for examples to back up their claims. They are happy to snatch the sound bite, to re-report the same corporate lies. The member of the public is never asked to explain or clarify, because if so, their brain would melt. They would enter the trauma of a confusion of epic severity, where they are faced with an abyss revealing the entirety of the lie they have lived all their life.

The brain fluid leaks through the nose and ears of the citizen. As they deflate and collapse, the reporter pulls the camera aside, smiling cheerily as he quick-wittedly fills in with ad-libbed platitudes, maintaining his cheeriness despite the widening bloody puddle under his feet.

Over and out for now, guys!

xxx

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