h a l f b a k e r yIt might be better to just get another gerbil.
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A totalitarian dystopia - except that the means of control isn't 1984-ish deprivation and surveillance or Brave New World's consumerist luxury, but a steady stream of motivational speakers and Prosperity Gospel preachers.
Yes, it's what happens when the government is taken over by Zig Ziglar clones!
Big Brother as portrayed by Joel Osteen!
"Remember, friends - you can be as free as you WANT to be!"
California Uber Alles
http://www.deadkenn...albums_fresh.html#8 Another "positive" Big Brother [bnip, Mar 28 2016]
Smile or Die Book Discussion
http://tunein.com/topic/?topicId=32451046 This book chronicles how positive thinking is becoming mandatory in the work world [lepton, Mar 28 2016]
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Isn't this already baked on the infomercial channels ? |
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Seems like my every day world. |
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Also reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert is
hired
as a negotiation coach for a week's class. 'Buy my new book
and I'll let you leave in 5 minutes!' |
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Fortunately the folks on the infomercial channels don't run the State. Not yet. Or at least, not so far as I know. |
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I was imagining Osteenities on ALL the billboards, everyone walking around with huge smiles of forced cheerful optimism, "Well, hel-LO Jim, isn't this a BLESSED day? Praise be!" - anyone who exhibited "stinkin' thinkin'," or who wasn't sufficiently energized at work would get escorted away by impossibly polite gendarmes... |
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Desert Bluffs and The Happiness Patrol both bake this in
fiction. |
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// not so far as I know. // |
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"You have much to learn, grasshopper ..." |
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I believe [8th] is referring to the Master in the series
"Kung Fu", after whom you seem to have named
yourself. |
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Thank you for posting this. People like Joel Osteen are a big
reason I left Christianity. Religion used to be something
that transcended prosperity or lack thereof but in America
more often than not that isn't true anymore. |
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