Gism Butter

Wed, 15 Dec 2004

Service Hopping

It's already here. You jump from cell phone company to mobile phone company, to cable company, to new york times, to oakland tribune, to netflix, to greencine, everquest, to WoW, to anarchy online, to

You get the picture. It's a neverending spiral brought on by addiction, deals, price cutting, and advertising. we have become a society so engaged by the next thing, the next offer, the free cooupons that the rest of the world is now floating us on credit. They are absolutely certain we're suckers. Which, we are. Nobody ever went broke investing in the ignorance of the American people. Irony has propelled undesireable products into the forefront, with a double headed penetration of each end by the consumers.

Eventually, the ads and offers and deals and cut rates incentive plans will destroy the base of the towers, hollow them out, collapse them. Western corporate downfall. And it will suck for us all, for then they'll start buying the rights to our fillings, and replacing them with radio transponders to boost their signals for the low low price of 19.99$ a month, you too can become a part of the machine.

I have to do something with my hair. A Mohawk is calling to me, beconing me closer. "Come," it says, from the baber shop around the corner called Phat Phades.

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