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THE DISPATCH

Weekly transmissions from Adbusters, the journal of the mental environment

Aesthetic winter is upon us. The 20th century was all logic and rationality, mathematical lines and ever decreasing circles, cycling into insane data-based robotic anti-humanity. We sanitized our lives, looking for cleanliness and godliness and landed on delusions of grandeur. Now the world’s messy, dark and angry again, a feral environment designed for high risk survivors. We learned to live as tranquil as tadpoles in a pond, savage as wolves in the woods. Blossom in the chaos of nature, pure and timeless; streaks of light across the cosmos — welcome to a century of redemption. Witness our vision of a vital new sensibility in this week's AESTHETICO burst — and the birth of the Mental Liberation Front in our new issue, AB 148!

Planetary Endgame

Transmission from 3019: "A thousand years ago your heroic forebears subjugated the whole of planet Earth to the power of OneState. It is for you to accomplish an even more glorious feat. ... Yes: to unbend the wild curve, to straighten it tangentially, asymptotically, to flatten it to an undeviating line. Because the line of OneState is a straight line. The great, divine, precise, wise straight line — the wisest of all lines."

AB 148: Birth of the Mental Liberation Front

If you want to fix democracy, make secrecy taboo. If you want to stop the media mindfuck, impose a psychic tax. If you want to rein in the power of corporations, kill the corporate “I”. If you want to fix the economy, pull off a paradigm shift in economics. If you want to halt global warming, make the price of products tell the ecological truth. And if you want to stop our spiral into a long dark age, then admit that straight lines are godless and immoral. In this issue, we unleash a force to crack the global mind. Welcome to the Mental Liberation Front.

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Hungry Hungry Factory Workers

When I heard loud voices off in the distance, I would tell myself that the overworked people were just laughing, not screaming.

Anaesthetic Ideology

There is the dream of an alternate aesthetic, of a world in which aestheticized experience worked only on things that were ordinary, on things that really did happen to most of us in the everyday.

All you activists! All you creatives!

How do you see our burning world? Is there a way to extinguish the flames? Submit your essays, rants, photographs, cartoons, illustrations, poems, posters, etc. to [email protected] and/or to [email protected].

Lukewarm liberal drivellers need not apply.

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