~ P-E ~ Pseudo-Event

~ 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

~ T-NL-IAP-EPE ~ The – News Leak – Is A Pseudo-Event Par Excellence

~ P-EPMP-E ~ Pseudo-Events Produce More Pseudo-Events

~ AP-EIAAT-PIAAF ~ A Pseudo-Event Is An Ambiguous Truth – Propaganda Is An Appealing Falsehood

~ P-ETOOHDTBI-PFOOWTBI ~ Pseudo-Events Thrive On Our Honest Desire To Be Informed – Propaganda Feeds On Our Willingness To Be Inflamed

~ POE-P-EOI ~ Propaganda Oversimplifies Experience – Pseudo-Events Overcomplicate It

~ 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

~ 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”

~ T-GR-SGU-AOT-TMOF-W-K ~ The – Graphic Revolution – Suddenly Gave Us – Among Other Things – The Means Of Fabricating – Well-Knownness

~ 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

~ H-W-FPTC-WOADOA-D ~ Hero-Worship – From Plato To Carlyle – Was Often A Dogma Of Anti-Democracy

~ 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

~ TH-WDB-A;TC-B-IOT ~ The – Hero – Was Distinguished By – Achievement; The Celebrity – By – Image Or Trademark

~ 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

~ 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

~ AI-ISWHACO-AI-HACOU ~ An Image – Is Something We Have A Claim On – An Ideal – Has A Claim On Us

~ TAOTN-T-N-F-PSWANTNF ~ The Appeal Of The Neither-True-Nor-False – Persuasive Statements Which Are Neither True Nor False

~ TAOTS-FP-TAOMTTBSTAS ~ The Appeal Of The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy – The Art Of Making Things True By Saying They Are So

~ TAOTH-I-EUTHTOEEMBCT ~ The Appeal Of The Half-Intelligible – Encourages Us To Hope That Our Extravagant Expectations May Be Coming True

~ TAOTC-WAFTAWGTSTFU ~ The Appeal Of The Contrived – We Are Flattered That Anyone Would Go To Such Trouble For Us

~ 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

~ 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