Myth is History

The marketing challenge for the near future is to convince the world to buy things that it needs rather than all the crap that it wants. Certainly we all would prefer a hulking truck over a tiny Zenn electric but can we afford to blindly buy ruination.

Certainly the legions of lying ad men can trick us into doing the right thing and loving it. If as they claim to be able to sell sand to the Saudis the sales force can sell citizens on salvation.

Fat people gladly rip out their guts in order to mold into slim fit jeans. The aging boomers embrace every cosmetic cure. False image is Iconic. No one wants to worship fading beauty eventhough it is beauty and truth. We need the smarmy telemarketers to trick us into reality.

Let's elect a professional liar like Kevin Trudeau for president and staff a cabinet of talented ad men to feed him his lines. Even the most unschooled Americans aren't buying the amateurish doublespeak coming out of Washington. How often can Rebuplicans resell trickdown economics and endless tax cuts? How long can Democrats throw fat on the fire?

Would that Nixon was a true Trickster rather than a paranoid fool. We haven't heard a believable lie since FDR. David Halberstam assasinated Kennedy for the second time by exposing his heavy handed manipulation of the media and his life of compounded lies. Barry Obama is too circumspect to tell a good story. He ought to go back to writing and polish his skills. Only old back rubbing Clinton would charm us into accepting a dick in the ass or mouth while fascinating over the world's most unbelievable lair.

My life is based on the fact that Myth is history. Thanks to the genius of Joseph Campbell and Charles Olson some forty years ago, I live a beautiful lie. I laugh at priests, preachers and presidents because the storyteller is the only shaman. Children naturally gravitate to the make believe before they are ruined by rules, truth and desire. Our society is rife with talented liars. We need to tell the old stories and make up new ones. That which is written wants to be indelible and we know the tragic effects of the Bible and the Koran. Teach a child to tell a story then to make one up on his own. The only worthwhile occupation is to be the searcher for the discovery of what it is in us that so hates wisdom.