Well, it’s shaping up to be a long, hot Summer, or year, or possibly decade or two, what with all the global political chaos, racial tensions, social unrest, and the blood-dimmed tide of Neo-nationalism rising inexorably out of Spiritus Mundi like the contents of a backed-up toilet. Whatever is actually going on — which is… Read More The Blood-Dimmed Tide of Neo-nationalism and Other Scary Simulacra
We’re going to begin our series on How to Operate an Anti-Authoritarian Hacktivist Cult by reviewing the three essentials of operating any type of cult: (1) the Charismatic Cult leader; (2) Isolation from Society; and (3) the Apocalyptic Ideology. We assume you’re already familiar with how these features function in more traditional cults, so we’ll… Read More How to Operate an Anti-Authoritarian Hacktivist Cult (Part 1)
Dear Consent Factory: I handle external communications for a privately-funded international NGO active in the fields of education and alternative lending strategies in developing countries. One of the major benefactors of the private foundation that owns the foreign subsidiary that owns our NGO read your How to Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste… Read More Ask the Consent Factory (Episode 2): So Our Boss Wants to Start Up a Hacktivist Cult
Last Tuesday, if you listened closely, you could hear it whoosh across the Internet, the enormous sigh of collective relief, as social liberals, center-leftists, and other “progressive Capitalism” fans received the news that it was finally over. Bernie Sanders and his fanatical legions of hopped-up, all-white hacky-sacking Bernie Bros had at last been banished from… Read More Welcome to “Reality,” Kids
Dear Consent Factory: I’m a fairly new associate at a global media relations firm. One of our firm’s clients, a private non-profit university located in a developing country and primarily funded by the U.S. Department of State, has got a bit of a situation that we were hoping you could help us make go away.… Read More Ask the Consent Factory (Episode 1): So Our Client’s New Chairman Murdered A Few People
So, Donald Trump, the billionaire buffoon and latest official Hitler-alike, wants to “make America great again,” and neoliberal elites throughout the Western world are noisily soiling themselves en masse in the mainstream press on a daily basis. According to respected, prize-winning papers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and some other… Read More Trumpocalypse: America Saves the World Again!
OK, we’re going to wrap up the first three installments of our How to Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time series with (a) an overview of social networks and (b) some nifty “cutting-edge” strategies that you can use in combination therewith. As you may or may not remember at this point,… Read More How To Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time (Part 3)
All right, much as we hate to do it, we’re going to interrupt our series on Herding your Critics into Fake Communities and Wasting their Time to repost another sarcastic little piece our disobedient and disrespectful employee, CJ Hopkins, slipped into CounterPunch back on May 4. We weren’t going to run this one here at… Read More Coming this Summer … Revenge of the Bride of Sophie’s Choice
EDITOR’S NOTE: So, it appears our best efforts to locate and therapeutically restrain our itinerant employee, CJ Hopkins, have thus far been in vain. Because yesterday he published the following piece in CounterPunch, a widely-read left-wing magazine covering politics in a manner its editors describe as “muckraking with a radical attitude.” As our operatives were… Read More The Mainstream Media and Its Discontents
A long time ago, before there was the Internet, if you wanted to herd your potential critics into fake communities and waste their time, one of the only ways to do that was the church. Although a rather primitive system of control by today’s standards, the church (i.e. organized religion, of any variety) was, for… Read More How to Herd your Critics into Fake Communities and Waste their Time (Part 2)
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