Useful term I discovered this week: “toxic mimicry”. It’s the pattern of substituting systems/organisations/services that look superficially like they fill a core societal need but in fact act to take up the space that a genuine system would fill, and only provide virtual nutrition.
Examples:
- 6pm TV news mimics public discourse
- Malls mimic public spaces
- Daycare mimics collective child rearing
I like the term as it suggests something predatory and insidious.
The entire U.S. health insurance racket. :P (And just about everyone we elect since almost every last one of them dips their beak in that gold-dusted watering hole constantly.)
My brilliant plan is to get Vladimir Putin into every cloying, insulting, spendy insurance ad and then U.S. Libs will finally be enraged enough to help the Left light all this shit on fire like we should've done in the 1950s. :/
It's just a matter of getting the proper actors, a good makeup artist, and the how-to book by those pranksters who got the major networks jammed with that Max Headroom cameo way back when.
I'd dress as V.P. myself to save a few bucks on acting. I'm not tall but with the right camera angles, that won't be an issue. ;)
See? It MUST be the trick photography that normally only the high rollers get! ;)
Daniel
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