Intravenous (i.v.) propaganda (just plug in for your daily dose of "reality" t.v.)

I'm sorry. The title of this post sounds a bit Matrix-y but, hey, don't you feel just a little like Alice down the rabbit hole, when the "news" is more "reality t.v." than reality t.v. and war is more "Hollywood" than Hollywood? What's next, i.v. propaganda in the form of red, white, and blue flag shaped anti-depressants? All should, of course, come packaged with the disclaimer that these products are not addictive, therefore not part of the "drugs" we are also at war with.
Perhaps they could make them bullet shaped. Or cluster bomb shaped. FOX could make even more money advertising them, with the U.S. flag waiving in the background of happy, Patriotic, television-watching, shopping, McDonaldites. Hell, the drug companies could call them the WMD's we couldn't find in Iraq. Weapons of Mass Distraction/Diversion/Dupidity. Okay, Dupidity isn't a word but stranger things have happened. We have a non-elected president holding an elected office, waging preemptive war, and holding photo-ops on aircraft carriers.
We waged a war on the basis of...well I can't remember, there's been SO many reasons and each changes as the "election" approaches. I personally think the idea behind a staged reality show must make the Pentagon proud. If we can stage reality, we can do anything. Including convincing Alice that in the rabbit hole, down is up, and up is down. Where's Morpheus when you need him?

peace!

"But I think, like the puppets, each of us is pulled upon invisible strings, until the night comes, and we are put away."
From (my absolute favorite writer/creator of a graphic novel) Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman Endless Nights" Chapter 1: Death and Venice


p.s. this post is meant as comic relief, nothing more. peace!