For the record...

[sekhmets_song]

...I really hate the local news.
All last week they were saying how terrible the weather would be on Sunday. You know, the usual:Death and Destruction on the Roadways!!! Do not attempt to leave the house for the killing sleets will get you!!! Blah blah blah blah blah

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[profane_stencil]

Haven't you ever felt like giving up reading the newspapers and putting your foot through the television? In that case, you have come to appreciate that:

The press, radio and television are the crassest vehicles for the lie. Not only do they push real problems (such as "How can we live better?", a question asked in concrete terms every single day) further into the background, but they also induce each private individual to identify with ready made images and to put himself, abstractly, in the shoes of a head of State or a filmstar, or a murderer or a victim... in short, they induce him to react to life as if he were someone whom he is not. The images which rule us mark the success of that which is not ourselves, which haunts us out of ourselves; of that which transforms us into objects to be categorised, labelled and hierarchised in keeping with the usages of the general commodity system....
...We subsist amid a forest of images with which we are driven to identify. We act less and less for ourselves and more and more as puppets of abstractions that direct us according to the laws of the commodity system (i.e. profit and power).

I couldn't resist.
Contributions to The Revolutionary Struggle, Intended To Be Discussed, Corrected, And Principally, Put Into Practice Without Delay (Raoul Vaneigem)

[sekhmets_song]

Smarty pants.