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"Does the child who sits in front of a television set for three to four hours a day, shops at the mall with her parents, goes to school and recites the Pledge of Allegiance, plays computer games, listens to her president encouraging everyone to go out shopping in order to defeat terrorism, wears clothes from the Gap, and plays with toys created out of the imagination of Disney and Hollywood, ever actually choose the American way of life? Did she go through a ritual of initiation beyond getting her first Barbie? Was there a moment of conversation in her life when the American dream became her dream? No. She imbibed the monoculture consumerist dream in the fast food she ate, the polluted air she breathed and the visual culture she inhabited. And so she was converted, made into a cult member, before she ever knew what was happening."

-Brian Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmaat in "Colossians Remixed"

I found this on my xanga. Posted back in 2006. I don't remember where I saw this quote, but I still like it. Its crazy that I've been passionate about this stuff for all this time, but never really realized it until recently.

Note to self: do not prank people.