Saturday, August 02, 2008

Marketing

I re-post a Bill Hicks rant that Bob pointed out in the past to round out the discussion regarding all future references to marketing on the Astromen! weblog.

Stuff White People Like

#82 Hating Corporations

"If you plan to engage in lengthy conversations or get high with white people it is recommended that you read No Logo or one issue of AdBusters. Failing that, it is acceptable to buy a copy to leave on your coffee table. When white people see it, they will recognize you as someone who can see through the advertising and has a proper perspective on life."

This apparently started as some sort of West Coast banal and ironic office humor and has now become the full time job of the creator.

PS - This post is also an addendum to my comments in the "Sterilized Counterculture" conversation below. I get the impression "hipster" is becoming something of a loaded word that is related indirectly to the stuff that white people like.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Sterilized Counterculture

"We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality."