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How To Be A Real Man

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:00:33 -0800

(72 votes - 14 comments - 2298 views)
From Found Footage Fest: This clip from a video entitled "How to be a Real Man," found at a flea market in Berea, Ohio, shows hip teenagers that life isn't only about Demolition Man posters, Counting Crows CDs and dressing like a bumbling undercover cop at a gay bar. It's also about slightly incorrect Spanish translations and punching your friends in the face for no reason.

Yo loco por Jesus.

Homophobic Christian Whines About Getting Fired

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:22:22 -0800

(70 votes - 48 comments - 2641 views)
Moral of the story: Don't be an asshole to your boss.

via: poetv

Creepy Hug - 5 Second Films

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:40:08 -0800

(68 votes - 4 comments - 2388 views)

Front Groups - The Hidden Persuaders

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:09:47 -0800

(71 votes - 11 comments - 1518 views)
One of the great things about the scientific method is that it is embedded with a self correcting engine. Science always continues to improve because it can examine itself; it reviews and refines its flaws.

Science today is being perverted by a small group of privately paid intellectuals, who seek to obscure the results of professional scientists by spinning, twisting and undermining their results. Most of this disinformation comes from what are referred to as front groups.

A front group is an organization that claims to represent one agenda, while in reality, it serves some other party or interest whose sponsorship is hidden or rarely mentioned. Front groups hire scientists that are willing to obscure the truth. Unlike regular scientists, they do not publish peer reviewed papers. Their views reflect their sponsors and unlike regular scientists, their main goal is to alter public opinion. Front groups create easy to read reports that are then injected into the media or political campaigns. They are nothing more than paid propagandists hired by the private sector and used to confuse the public.

Real scientists have been marginalized partly because they have trouble expressing their complex ideas to the media, while front group's existence depends on their ability to take incomprehensible ideas and turn them into easy to understand sound bites for the public. These sound bites then enter into what is called an echo chamber. This is when news outlets begin to naively report soundbites that move like a virus through the media.

There are hundreds of these groups, receiving billions from corporations. They work to protect private interests no matter how dangerous and undemocratic, no matter how many people die, all in the name of profit.

Science and technology are powerful engines. They can make our lives better or worse. Whoever controls this mass of power has the ability to affect entire societies. But at the moment these instruments are being dominated and manipulated by an unseen army of paid charlatans.

Here are some of the corporately funded front groups, pr firms and think tanks mentioned in the video:

The Cato Institute
Center for Consumer Freedom
The Employee Policy Institute
Center For Union Facts
Global Climate Coalition
Friends of Science Society
Frontiers of Freedom
Greening Earth Society
Institute of Public Affairs
Scientific Alliance
American Enterprise Institute
Adam Smith Institute
Citizens for a Sound Economy
Accuracy in the Media
Berman and Co.

Preaching about Piss

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:55:46 -0800

(13 votes - 5 comments - 447 views)
In what may be the worst sermon of all time, Pastor Anderson ponders the possibilities of Protestant Piss. I guess it's tough coming up with new material week after week. Maybe instead of coming up with new sermons, they could refine and improve the act they already have, like stand up comedians do.

Edward Bernays and the Art of Public Manipulation

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:52:55 -0800

(28 votes - 1 comment - 517 views)
" [The] American business community was also very impressed with the propaganda effort. They had a problem at that time. The country was becoming formally more democratic. A lot more people were able to vote and that sort of thing. The country was becoming wealthier and more people could participate and a lot of new immigrants were coming in, and so on.
So what do you do? It's going to be harder to run things as a private club. Therefore, obviously, you have to control what people think. There had been public relation specialists but there was never a public relations industry. There was a guy hired to make Rockefeller's image look prettier and that sort of thing. But this huge public relations industry, which is a U.S. invention and a monstrous industry, came out of the first World War. The leading figures were people in the Creel Commission. In fact, the main one, Edward Bernays, comes right out of the Creel Commission. He has a book that came out right afterwards called Propaganda. The term "propaganda," incidentally, did not have negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War that the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things. But in this period, the term propaganda just meant information or something like that. So he wrote a book called Propaganda around 1925, and it starts off by saying he is applying the lessons of the first World War. The propaganda system of the first World War and this commission that he was part of showed, he says, it is possible to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments their bodies." These new techniques of regimentation of minds, he said, had to be used by the intelligent minorities in order to make sure that the slobs stay on the right course. We can do it now because we have these new techniques. " -Chomsky

Beynays' book 'Propaganda': http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html

Rock Me Sexy Jesus

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:02:45 -0700

(11 votes - 5 comments - 631 views)
From the film Hamlet 2, a parody of some of the lamer modern musical theater (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Rent/High School Musical 1-9).

Thriller before it was Thriller

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:14:02 -0700

(17 votes - 1 comment - 541 views)
From Creepy LA Blog:

But here’s something I just recently ran across – Michael Jackson’s recording of “Starlight,” the song that would eventually become “Thriller” with completely new lyrics. This is pretty mindblowing… take a listen:

The legend is that songwriter Rod Templeton woke up with a vision of the word “Thriller” at the top of Billboard’s charts, changes were made, and the rest is history.

Can you imagine the “Thriller” album, let alone this song, with any other title? Goes to show that zombies and a lil creepiness make everything better.

http://creepyla.com/blog/2009/10/28/listen-to-thriller-before-it-was-thriller/

In Defense of the Katana: A pwnage in 3 chapters

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:36:24 -0800

(13 votes - 5 comments - 847 views)
On June 25th 2009, YouTube user lindybeige made an enemy of 9 centuries of tradition, honour and martial prowess. His slander could not go unanswered. This is the story of what happens next....

Windows 3.1 Launch Party

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:41:43 -0800

(19 votes - 3 comments - 731 views)
FYT: Video evidence of a Windows 3.1 Launch Party from October 1992. The VHS was excavated from a time capsule 17 years after its creation, and released on the official launch date for Windows 7 -- 10.22.2009. As the tape confirm, celebrating the release of a new Windows operating system with a "launch party" is a time-honored tradition. Although it's an old idea, the Windows party is as lively as ever.