Immanentize the Eschaton

Here is an interesting piece done by one of my favorite blogs about the use of corporate symbols in mind control. If you know anything about sigils, this is an ability that is out there and available to anyone. But the PR companies are the ones who are exploiting it the hardest and the best right now. I think Alan Moore said something about this in an interview, that a lot of the people who we would charge with creation of ideas--like our modern day magicians--they've been co-opted out by those who seek to exploit those talents and abilities for their own personal benefit without any respect to the advancement of the human condition.

I don't think this is something that is done intentionally, on a wholly conscious level. But I do think that when you are in position B or C in society, there are elements in place which make you do X thing. We're at a point in human history, where we have more power at our disposal than ever, but have never been so powerless to use it. The things we have sacrificed to get here, we're paying the bills of. And it's leaving strictures in places like this.

Part of this study showed how people exposed to the Apple Icon versus the IBM one, were prone to be more creative in their usage of the elements around them. Imagine if we were powering people up even more strongly in these respects, without such a hard eye to the bottom line?

And the thing is. This stuff IS doable. This is just crafting symbols and then placing them. Even if people aren't familiar with what the symbols are supposed to mean, this study indicates that they are still influenced. You say something like that, and then look around you at the iconongraphy that is puked all over our eniviroment and wonder just what the hell we've gotten ourselves into.

It reminds me tangentially(or not) of some of the stuff in Don Delillo's Mao II. In particular the bombed out Beirut with the coca-cola signs everywhere.

Forget voting. You're not changing shit with voting. The idea of voting is just some construct you are forced to buy into because of the symbology you're bombarded with on a daily basis.

You want to talk about the concept of civic duty. You're civic duty is to create newer and better symbology and spread it everywhere.

Our foot soldiers are graf writers and bloggers. Have you made a sigil today?