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Randall Packer

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Strategic Forgetfulness

Every day in the post reality is a new day. A fabricated reality based on the strategic design of forgetfulness to be absorbed into the media-generated narrative… This forgetfulness drives the new narrative of the everyday. Replaces it. Becomes it. It lulls us into its immersive illusion. Everyone can be anything in the post reality. Everyone can know everyone in the post reality. Everyone can be everywhere in the post reality. There are no boundaries in the post reality… It lulls us into its construction. Pure pleasure. Repetition. Moves us. It immerses us into its space, that space of connectedness, forgetfulness, mesmerizing. So easy, so forgetful to turn on the endless stream of media: television, radio, computer, phone, talking heads, advertisement… Fueled by the idea of social intoxication, public display, pure fun, magic of the virtual, forgetfulness.

  • Virtual Handshake in the Post Reality (2/19/2016)
  • Whatever (2/12/2014)
  • Uber-Commercialism (11/19/2013)
  • Controlling isn’t coping (9/20/2013)
  • This will be an entertaining nightmare of ingestion and recapitulation (3/7/2013)
  • Back to the Future (5/15/2012)
  • The appealing variety of emptiness (1/16/2011)
  • The total embrace of the image (1/12/2011)
  • The Seduction of the Artificial (1/11/2011)
  • We are all Creators of Events and we will Make Things Happen (1/8/2011)
  • A Fabricated Reality Based on Strategic Forgetfulness (1/5/2011)
  • Now that I’m back from the Underworld, where in Hell do I go from here? (11/16/2010)

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