She's BACK: The chill-billy from Wassilly! Somebody full of the Spirit of the Lord called her the "Sno-Queen Snooki of the Great White North" the other day, and yer ol' Doc just about fell OUT! To those struggling to comprehend how "Snow-Queen Snooki" can command the national spotlight with such ease, we need only recall the plethora of other celebrities who can do the same thing. There is no qualitative difference between her and Charlie Sheen; the merely perform in different mediated spheres, she in the "political" rather than the ostentatiously 'entertaining' side of the business. "Sarah Pale-one" is a living, blathering example of what Dan Boorstin in a 1961 book ("The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-events in America") called a "pseudo-event."
A "pseudo-event" is an occasion the only purpose for which is to draw media attention to itself. It wouldn't occur unless there were someone who was going to report it somewhere. The significant, but truthfully the only difference between Palin and a press-release is that only her performance never stops, isn't limited to a single, prepared venue.
S-Q Snooki's singular attractions are her tits, her ass, her white skin-tone and her willingness to say or do ANYTHING to draw a crowd to admire them. A human pseudo-event, in the flesh.
Or, think of her as an ambulatory, political PR stunt. She's the macro-mediated equivalent in the present, political circus of women smoking cigarettes in the Easter parade in 1913. In DC on Memorial Day, the dismal ditz proudly announced that she loved the smell of unburnt hydrocarbons. She's deeply, proudly, ignorantly--yeah, pathologically--stoopit, but she's shrewdly psychopathic, like grifters ALL have to be. She's a walking ad for herself.
And it's paying off quite nicely.
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That old Ciceronian conundrum: Cui Bonum?
A correspondent on FB today asked: What is causing the sharp increase in cases of autism?
I answered: The main thing is, there's LOTS of money to be made from any new affliction, especially if kids are involved, and you can almost promise a 'cure.'
Parents with "abnormal" kids are like money fountains. They'll starve the whole family to get another/new treatment to make the baby "normal."
CorpoRat medicine preys on that, profits by it, expands it, markets it, popularizes it.
There's other things, too, like a chemically toxic life-world, polluted with close to 100 THOUSAND artificial, industrial/agricultural/medical toxins which are mostly unregulated, and mostly untested for consequences to long-term exposure. Mebbe our psychological "shells" are growing thinner, mutating somehow, in the presence of these novel poisons.
Also, there is an 'industry" around autism, now. It's got "schedules," and stuff. You can quantify it. So, with regularized symptomologies, there are more "pro-forma" diagnoses, especially in the commercial climate that encourages and profits from intervention.
Just offa the toppa my head, anyway...(I was adhd before it had initials. I was miserable. I was/am lucky.)
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