Culture Jam

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Title Culture Jam
Presented by Tom Uno Class date9th May Class
name Science Policy and Environment(2) Instructor
Prof. Edson.K.Kondo Venue Room
224, Engineering Building 2, Graduate School of
Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
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Culture Jam

• How To Reverse Americas Suicidal Consumer
  Binge-And Why We Must

Kalle Lasn
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Overview
?Posthuman ?The Cult ?The End of the American
Dream ?Corporations ?The Global Economic
Pyramid scheme
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Posthuman

• The detachment from everyday social life
• Reality being redefined
• Ideal selves realized in cyber-space

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TV Turnoff Week
"By the time this child graduates from high
school, her brain will have absorbed 350,000
television commercials, 100,000 alcohol ads and
a daily barrage of sex and violence. If that
doesn't turn you off then nothing will."
"Your living room is the factory.The product
being manufactured is you."
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The Cult

• The consumer cult doesnt make us happy
• You dont realize youre in the Matrix
• Cult rituals are commonplace
• You dont even dream of anything outside the cult

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The End of the American Dream

• The Cult leader
• The Brand-US
• People unfulfilled, restless
• Dysfunction creeping slowly!
• You will never get as far as you wish

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Tap Water
Whats in your water?

• Pathogens
• Metals and inorganic chemicals
• Synthetic organic chemicals
• Radioactive materials
• Additives

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Corporations
Guess whos in control now?
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Whats the big picture?

• The Global Economic Pyramid Scheme
• Leaders Maintaining Power Because of our Belief
  in them!

The crème de la crème
Citizens (of which most are in the cult)
The rest of the World
The Tools GDP, Derivatives, Greed, Blind Faith