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RE: stories and specialness
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Marek J
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Jul 02, 2001 08:49 PDT
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It took me a week to see why I got so pissed with all this storytelling
manufacturing by Corporate thingis.
Why would this be a big deal. Why not just drop it, forget aobut it and
do some gardening instead?
But first a quote:
Christopher Locke wrote:
| | Storytelling seems to have achieved a certain cachet in
corporate circles, though as an eviscerated, bankrupt concept.
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It's that specialness that pissed me off. That elitist notion that
corporate entities are now very special, as if they are the keepers of
stories, as if History never happened, Lascaux drawings are a figment of
imagination and Moby Dick was just some pamphlet on how to become a
harpooner.
That's what bothers me. That 5 year olds today are learning arythmetic
by adding and substracting fries and big macs, learning how to read by
perusing books with full color photograhs displaying products of your
beloved corporate sponsor.
Doesn't anyone read Illiad any more? O, wait, The fast black ships of
Achaians could be a great add for new SeaDoo jet skis
Marek J
http://soapbox.radioPossibility.com/
Amused To Death | from monolog to dialog.
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