From "Obama Superstar" to "Obama As Cult" - When Memes Collide
Published on Feb 24, 2008 in none
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From "Obama Superstar" to "Obama...
February 24, 2008
If the Obama media advisors and spin-doctors are in fact planting swooners at Obama’s rallies in order to further the “Obama Rock Star” meme, it’s ... More
If the Obama media advisors and spin-doctors are in fact planting swooners at Obama’s rallies in order to further the “Obama Rock Star” meme, it’s starting to backfire. Another powerful and rapidly-disseminating meme is taking its place: “Obama As Cult.” Pundits are going beyond coining such phrases as “Obamapalooza” and “Obama-mania” and are inserting powerful triggering words and phrases such as “drink the Kool-Aid.” Allusions to Germany’s Third Reich and the orchestrated spectacles of Nietzsche-inspired mass rallies in “Triumph of the Will” filmed by Leni Riefenstahl (http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/26/riefenstahl.html) are being invoked, and the “Utopia Turns Dystopia” meme is festering, just waiting to burst forth. Less
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