Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Friday, November 12, 2004
Rumor Club (gossip as direct action?)
“A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.”
-John Tudor
“How many ways to get what you want?
I use the best/I use the rest
I use the enemy/I use anarchy”
-Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the UK”
Did you know there are alligators—discarded pets flushed down urban toilets—living in the NYC sewers...getting fat on a steady diet of rats?
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Long before Al Gore invented the Internet, War Criminal Winston Churchill declared: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
WMDs...the Saddam/Osama connection...we will be greeted as liberators.
The power of suggestion vs. reality. Gossip vs. guns. Rumors instead of demonstrations. Could this be a viable tool? Ani DiFranco says: “Every tool is a weapon...if you hold it right.”
What would happen if as many people as possible—potentially millions—were to log onto chat rooms, comment boards, etc. and engage in a little wishful thinking? Imagine a steady supply of rumors that George W. Bush is about to propose universal health care. Picture hundreds of thousands of e-mails crisscrossing the Web claiming to know that Oregon is about secede from the U.S. and name Ralph Nader as its president.
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