disgusting capitalism

I realize that there are so-called intellectuals who wield words like "aesthetic" or "merely aesthetic", but, at bottom, their views are incoherent.  (So, too, the confused economists who imagine they've a criticism that is not "merely moral".....)

At any rate, I am equally disgusted---please allow me to say that again---disgusted--by both Gmail and Hotmail.

They are competing for stupidity and offensiveness---Google-turds have now "organized" my mailbox for me.  No thank you,  it's not progress.

And then they both think they've found some secret of my personality so they can "target" special advertising for me.  Oh, sigh.  What utterly idiotic nonsense.

A more perfect proof that capitalism encourages stupidity and ugliness could not be imagined.

Here's a quote from Baran in the article linked below

We have to understand the ideologically overpowering impact of bourgeois, fetishistic consciousness on the broad masses of the working population…. The heart-breaking emptiness and cynicism of the commercial, competitive, capitalist culture. The systematic cultivation of devastatingly neurotic reactions to most social phenomena (through the movies, the “funnies,” etc.). The effective destruction in schools, churches, press, everywhere, of everything that smacks of solidarity in the consciousness of the man in the street. And finally, the utterly paralyzing feeling of solitude which must overcome any one who does not want to conform, the feeling that there is no movement, no camp, no group to which one can turn


Excerpted (cut and pasted) from this month's "Monthly Review"
http://monthlyreview.org/2013/07/01/the-cultural-apparatus-of-monopoly-capital

The stupidity of television and mass culture has now been transported into the stupidity of the Internet, Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook, and the entire idiotic interface.

Recommended Link:
http://www.consumertrap.com/