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… REMOVED EARLIER POST (1) … In response to a post by Fiat Lux.
… as Jim Maars was fond of saying, “Voting? (a quaint euphemism that allows one to think a particular action has meaning and real world effect) His saying the word “voting” was more often than not followed by a chuckle or two. He would continue, “if it mattered do you think they would let you do it?” However, we must admit, that “voting” makes us feel very similar to the way we do after participating in a survey. The feeling is usually along the lines of — wasn’t it nice, after all, to be “consulted” — and then to be able to number ourselves among “the consulted”. One can imagine one’s “consultation” inducing a “Sally Field Moment”. To paraphrase Miss Field, “No really, this time I feel it. You really do respect my opinion. I can’t deny the fact that you respect my opinion. Right now, you respect my opinion!” Unfortunately, the truth is in the last sentence. This is of course only for “right now” and not for the reasons one would like to think. You, like “your opinion”, will soon be discarded and forgotten (just like our posts on Giza). Maybe we would feel better about all of the collecting, selling, and use of our personal “data” (again, a euphemistic way of referring to our being under constant surveillance) if we would simply choose to think of being under constant surveillance not as an evil but as a good. No, no, no, clearly our thinking on this matter is all wrong. We are simply being “constantly consulted”. Yes, “constant consulting”. Yes, Judas think of it as a fee, nothing more. This should also address our so called “self-esteem” problem. After all I must really be important (and by inference my life meaningful in the Grand Cosmic Scheme of Things) if I have been deemed worthy of being “constantly consulted”. Yet another Giza T-shirt merch idea … The shirt would read “Constantly Consulted!” or how about a button along the lines of those of our “friends” at Herbalife? The button would read … Constant Consultation! Ask Me How!