~ P-E ~
Pseudo-Event
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ALALPOOE-HHCTCOP-E-TFOC ~ A Larger And Larger Proportion Of Our
Experience – Has Come To Consist Of Pseudo-Events – They Flood
Our Consciousness
~ TGR ~
The Graphic Revolution
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T-NL-IAP-EPE ~ The – News Leak – Is A Pseudo-Event Par Excellence
~ P-EPMP-E
~ Pseudo-Events Produce More Pseudo-Events
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AP-EIAAT-PIAAF ~ A Pseudo-Event Is An Ambiguous Truth – Propaganda
Is An Appealing Falsehood
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P-ETOOHDTBI-PFOOWTBI ~ Pseudo-Events Thrive On Our Honest Desire To
Be Informed – Propaganda Feeds On Our Willingness To Be Inflamed
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POE-P-EOI ~ Propaganda Oversimplifies Experience – Pseudo-Events
Overcomplicate It
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O-‘FMOI’-IAPWPACBCP-EAAATJAT ~ Our – “Free Market Of Ideas –
Is A Place Where People Are Confronted By Competing Pseudo-Events And
Are Allowed To Judge Among Them
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KOP-E-OWHBR-O-WHBS-AH-BTTOB-‘I’ ~ Knowledge Of Pseudo-Events – Of
What Has Been Reported – Or – What Has Been Staged – And How –
Becomes The Test Of Being – “Informed”
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T-GR-SGU-AOT-TMOF-W-K ~ The – Graphic Revolution – Suddenly Gave
Us – Among Other Things – The Means Of Fabricating –
Well-Knownness
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TQWNCMAMOWIA-‘NA’-B-AIFANCOHE ~ The Qualities Which Now Commonly Make
A Man Or Woman Into A – “Nationally Advertised” – Brand
– Are In Fact A New Category Of Human Emptiness
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H-W-FPTC-WOADOA-D ~ Hero-Worship – From Plato To Carlyle – Was
Often A Dogma Of Anti-Democracy
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TCIAPWIKFHW-K-THP-E-H[/H]RTMAERIHA-T-NM-‘H’-ARIWWPOOP ~ The Celebrity
Is A Person Who Is Known For His Well-Knownness – The Human
Pseudo-Event – His[/Her] Relation To Morality And Even Reality Is
Highly Ambiguous – These – New-Model – “Heroes” –
Are Receptacles Into Which We Pour Our Own Puposelessness
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TH-WDB-A;TC-B-IOT ~ The – Hero – Was Distinguished By –
Achievement; The Celebrity – By – Image Or Trademark
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TVAWFMTC-ITLR-D-D-A-M-B-P ~ The Very Agency Which First Makes The
Celebrity – In The Long Run – Destroys – Destroyed – As –
Made – By – Publicity
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C-BTAMTO-CBMT-P-C-F-A-FU-WDNLTCTWALIAM-WLFM-A-WSOOI ~ Celebrities –
Because They Are Made To Order – Can Be Made To – Please –
Comfort – Fascinate – And – Flatter Us – We Do Not Like To
Confess That We Are Looking In A Mirror – We Look For Models –
And – We See Our Own Image
~ INRI ~
Images Now Displace Ideals
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AI-ISWHACO-AI-HACOU ~ An Image – Is Something We Have A Claim On –
An Ideal – Has A Claim On Us
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TAOTN-T-N-F-PSWANTNF ~ The Appeal Of The Neither-True-Nor-False –
Persuasive Statements Which Are Neither True Nor False
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TAOTS-FP-TAOMTTBSTAS ~ The Appeal Of The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy –
The Art Of Making Things True By Saying They Are So
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TAOTH-I-EUTHTOEEMBCT ~ The Appeal Of The Half-Intelligible –
Encourages Us To Hope That Our Extravagant Expectations May Be Coming
True
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TAOTC-WAFTAWGTSTFU ~ The Appeal Of The Contrived – We Are Flattered
That Anyone Would Go To Such Trouble For Us
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N-T-B-C-ITMT ~ Not – Truth – But – Credibility – Is The
Modern Test~ TI-TAOC-TAHBSCTTNSC ~ This Is – The Age Of Contrivance
– The Artificial Has Become So Commonplace That The Natural Seems
Contrived
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TINDSLAWDNTTBCGWAGN-B-TGR-HOUTMOMAEAFO-MCG-WCBCSTGUTITWABN ~ There Is
No Danger So Long As We Do Not Think That By Chewing Gum We Are
Getting Nourishment – But – The Graphic Revolution – Has
Offered Us The Means Of Making All Experience A Form Of – Mental
Chewing Gum – Which Can Be Continually Sweetened To Give Us The
Illusion That We Are Being Nourished