Thursday, March 19, 2009

the market for outrage

they should organize bookstores according to the emotion you want to elicit

or solicit

the market for outrage is booming
but the newspapers have it cornered

a cleansing outrage
ahhhh
that's nice

it's nice to know that what is happening is an exception
and that after this things will be back to normal

no more million dollar bonuses for millionaires
no more soldiers doing dirty things
no more children choking on carrots in day care centers

life will be as it should be
with old people dying in beds in nursing homes
teens getting into traffic accidents

and all that other stuff happening away from the prying eyes of the yellow journalists scribbling incendiary tripe in a push to create and exhaust the market for outrage

it's the clause in murphy's law for downward spirals
how bad can it get?
as bad as it can

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