{"id":178,"date":"2007-03-19T17:35:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T23:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2007-03-19T17:35:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T23:35:52","slug":"propaganda-and-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/propaganda-and-amnesia\/","title":{"rendered":"propaganda and amnesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image493\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2007\/03\/jessica_petter.jpg\" alt=\"jessica_petter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i got so staggeringly drunk this past saturday that i might have had my first memory loss. last thing i recall (more or less) after getting out of the cab at 0300 is hanna breaking a plate, and that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image494\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2007\/03\/mateusz_anna_taxi.jpg\" alt=\"mateusz_anna_taxi.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>according to sources slightly more reliable than i, we were actually up for half an hours, during which i not only was fondling petters abs and encouriging others to do the same, but also promised to make breakfast. in fact, i had promised to &#8220;get up, go to the store, and cook breakfast before any of you wake up&#8221;. i must have been <em>the drunkest<\/em> because it&#8217;s a ridiculous thing for me to promise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image492\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2007\/03\/hanna_anna_petter.jpg\" alt=\"hanna_anna_petter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i was held to my promise though, and six hours later they tear my door down, someone takes my cellphone for some reason, and then yell feed us! <em>feeeeeeed us<\/em>! like so many gollum zombies until i mooch to the store to buy baked beans. i&#8217;m drunk all day and only get the hangover in the evening. then blissful sleep. sunday more or less down the drain, when i should have been doing, i don&#8217;t know, something <em>soberlish<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>emma came by and kept my miserable self company. and i now have a bike that goes &#8220;schuech schuech&#8221; on every rotation. yay for bikes!<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s related, but i stumbled upon edward bernays book &#8220;propaganda&#8221; while searching for people to interview regarding the lockpicking presentation that&#8217;s due in a weeks time. i&#8217;m not going to read it right now, but i did watch a short clip about his successful attempt to get more women smoking in the 20s:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"323\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ATukt1se4gM\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ATukt1se4gM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>the book is available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyisaweapon.com\/defcon1\/bernprop.html\">www.historyisaweapon.com<\/a>, and it&#8217;s prolly a good read. if nothing else it&#8217;s a classic in pr and advertising.<\/p>\n<p>oh, i think that what connects the two above stories might be a flashback to the party &#8211; a sea of amused faces when i with much bravado describe the priciple of how i&#8217;m going to take over gothenburg. it&#8217;s a sound principle, but my eagerness to inform these poor people about its genious might have been <em>overly enthusiastic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i got so staggeringly drunk this past saturday that i might have had my first memory loss. last thing i recall (more or less) after getting out of the cab at 0300 is hanna breaking a plate, and that&#8217;s it. according to sources slightly more reliable than i, we were actually up for half an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/propaganda-and-amnesia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">propaganda and amnesia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1884,1890,1887],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","tag-doodles","tag-photography","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}