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Similar effcts, different causes
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......For the past 150 years design has answered the needs of the industrial revolution's age of mass. Communications and manufacturing have been based on the economies of scale. Mass production is based on standardization — one product to solve all people's needs. The Model T was available in any colour you wanted as long as it was black. The economies of mass production reduced diversity and individuality, but produced lots of affordable goodies. Similarly, the golden age of mass communications gave us three TV networks, with the entire US watching the same TV show every Sunday night......
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Graphic design in a multicultural world
Katherine McCoy, 'Graphic design in a multicultural world',
How magazine, Cincinnati, April 1995,
pp. 146-151

Here we have the principle of commodity fetishism, the domination of society by things whose qualities are "at the same time perceptible and imperceptible by the senses." This principle is absolutely fulfilled in the spectacle, where the perceptible world is replaced by a set of images that are superior to that world yet at the same time impose themselves as eminently perceptible.

Big man, pig man
Ha, ha, charade you are
You well heeled big wheel
Ha, ha, charade you are
And when your hand is on your heart
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost a joker
With your head down in the pig bin
Saying 'keep on digging'
Pig stain on your fat chin
What do you hope to find
Down in the pig mine?
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry

Bus stop rat bag
Ha, ha, charade you are
You fucked up old hag
Ha, ha, charade you are
You radiate cold shafts of broken glass
You're nearly a good laugh
Almost worth a quick grin
You like the feel of steel
You're hot stuff with a hat pin
And good fun with a hand gun
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry

Hey you, white house
Ha, ha, charade you are
You house proud town mouse
Ha, ha, charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street
You're nearly a real treat
All tight lips and cold feet
And do you feel abused?
You got to stem the evil tide
And keep it all on the inside
Mary you're nearly a treat
Mary you're nearly a treat
But you're really a cry

Pigs (Three different ones) 11:26, Waters,
Pink Floyd