Zombie dogs

Zombie dogs.

Hello! Asia wants to know when we'll have our stuff out. And they're not just asking. It's a demand. From Russia and China, no less. Tell us, Dr. Brezinski, is this check, or mate?

Cool letter from London, re: the recent bombings. We're through the looking-glass here, folks, but I'm warning you: we're not dreaming ...in any ordinary sense, anyway...

Hey everybody, it's filmstrip day! Yay! Watch, it's only about ten minutes. When was the last time you watched a filmstrip?

Having just watched it myself, I'm struck both by how cheesy and pedantic it seems, and also, ironically, by how radical the information seems today. That's bad. Bad, because the cheesiness of it makes us presume that it's dated, and therefore not relevant anymore. Bad, because it makes us feel we're being talked-down-to, and we tend not to repeat information that we recieve like that. Bad, because the original viewers (who probably also laughed at how cheesy it was) are now teachers and parents (grandparents, even), who are now passing along that affected ennui to their children and students, thereby encouraging further submission to Authority- the authority of Marketing and authority of State. Ironic.

Fear is the mind-killer. Submission is mental death.