Thursday, July 24, 2014

It all keeps adding up

9/18/2008 8:19:00 AM

U2's Zooropa Tour had a feature that I liked very much: a news broadcast that made no sense, a huge tv set with a man reading news that were absolute mumbo jumbo.

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that this is actually how things work. We have only been engineered to "understand" the "information" we get from the media.

It was nice to find a book that takes this thought to the absolute extreme: the whole history is a bluff. "The Secret History of the World" by Jonathan Black is hilarious. Am I the only one who thinks this is all very funny?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/oct/13/society

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