Scotland’s Jesus
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Frankie Boyle. Scotland’s Jesus
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. ROYALS
2. POLITICS
3. TRANSPORT
4. WAR ON TERROR
5. EUROPE
6. SPORT
7. TV
8. ANIMALS
9. ECONOMY
10. CELEBS
11. PRESS
12. SCIENCE
13. CRIME
14. EDUCATION AND KIDS, YO!
15. HEALTH
16. INTERNET
17. RELATIONSHIPS
18. SCOTLAND
19. RELIGION
ENDGAME
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Of course, this doesn’t make you happy, so you need to propagandise the chosen state of mind to yourself, through self-help literature, a term I use loosely here, to cover a whole bunch of stuff, including most religions and newspapers. What’s the drive of your little internal propaganda office? Well, it’s to sell the idea of you, to advance your status. By convincing people who you are too guarded to truly know about a bunch of ideas that you don’t fully believe. And in any case, in a world of seven billion people what’s your status, really? In truth, it doesn’t matter any more than the charge on an electron.
Orwell imagined a coercive totalitarian state but Aldous Huxley probably made a better prediction of our current reality. In Brave New World people are complicit in their own enslavement; they’re into it. I think we can go further. It’s not just that people are controlled by propaganda, or even that they enjoy being controlled. I think that people are now propaganda. People are no longer the things being controlled, they are the method of control, both of themselves and others. Of course, I’ve written this little serious passage here to advance my own status.
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