THE MOST AMAZING THING about the trevon martin zimmerman trial is how wildly popular it became. In the united states of advertising one expects to be forever awash in some form of sordid scandal, via the media, but this is truly extraordinary, even by our standards.
We are spoon fied, of course, one delicious seductive sensational shocking scandal at a time, just to keep us mollified, docile, placid, controllable. This one was a corporate marketing division's dream, since it lasted forever, touched on some deeply american issues, exciting and impossible to predict all the way to the shocking end.
What will be our next bill o faire? What will be be fed next by our corporate masters, acting through their media mind mass mind mold? It must already be on the horizon, somewhere out there, if we look hard enough. It had better be good; zimmerman will be a tough act to follow.
Not to worry, say our corporate masters. They lap up whatever we feed them, like the good little obedient servants that they for the most part are.
Amazing, that a random, momentary, brutal encounter between two young men with too much anger and arrogance should have become such an enormous industry, but, as they say, only in america.
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