The Good, the Bad, and the Really Ugly:

It has been a very Good year.  I had a very Good Christmas with all of my family and friends; my niece had an excellent go at her presents.  This year has brought damn Good writing, and Good times to my life.  I am truly lucky. 

Complacency has been spotted at an all time high this year and this has allowed Bad things to come from Good people worldwide.  Though people are inherently Good, Bad continues to surface in daily tribulation after daily tribulation.  Imagine a different outcome this year. 

Finally, the Really Ugly would have to be the incessant assault on our human senses by the one truly and unequivocally influential advertising/or commercialism.  I am, I realize, a hypocrite (for I willingly fall into the commercials of television and magazines like the rest of us and upon a dollar offered would gladly sell my writing like one possessed of the selfish/mercenary mentality that plagues the world's inhabitants, [though I'll never sell out entirely, nor yield my soul]), but I stand to resist the commercial media as much as I can and to help others to do so also.  It is time we humans fought back.  Subliminal and direct advertising assaults our senses every day and it is on us to at least be aware of as much of this -- these blatant swaying tools -- to retain our freedom over our own decisions and behaviors. 
    Therefore, I'd like to make known a recent travesty that has come to my attention.  Inside Greenwich Village there is a sign advertising a certain A&* television show.  During the middle of December this sign was erected with a new feature:  as one walked into the targeted area, surrounding the sign, beams of ultrasound shoot you and changes the audible sound so that you hear, without warning, an advertisement for the television show.  This direct assault on one's brain and personal space is the first of its kind.  Advertisers dreamed up a way to get you, because once you stray into the targeted area you cannot stop hearing the advertisement until you find your way out of the targeted area (and far away from the billboard).  Anything could be programed to rape your ears and you have no way of knowing when it will come, or when the attack will end. 
    Now the billboard I speak of has already been turned off.  It still stands, but the company ended the audio pillaging after one week, which begs the question:  why create an expensively innovative advertisement just for one week.  It is possible that heat has already been brought down upon this technological travesty that once beguiled our freedom to turn off the commercial.  Maybe they were avoiding flack, just "experimenting", or maybe the company was merely trying to keep the Really Ugly assault under the radar.  Well I am informing everyone possible, and I stand ready to fight to remove such dire devices from our already chained existence (see Plato for information regarding the shackles keeping us in the "cave").  Here is a link to an article regarding the billboard.  If anyone has any information, or feedback please leave it here and I'll get back to you.

http://www.cnet.com/8301-13645_1-9836453-47.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

I wish everyone Peace and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Rob Huneke

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