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The Sainsbury’s Advertisement

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 It’s a bit Herbert Marcuse,

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 A bit One Dimensional Man:

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 A unification of opposites,

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 A harmonisation of contradictions,

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 Where liberal-democratic capitalism

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Gives that tantalising illusion of freedom,

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 Whilst simultaneously appropriating opposition.

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 It’s Gramsci’s cultural hegemony,

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 It’s Sainsbury’s Christmas advertisement:

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 A celebration of an unofficial truce,

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 With unauthorised fraternisation,

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 And near mutiny,

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 Held up as a paragon of virtue,

14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 In a sanitised World War One

15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 (Where is that queer, sardonic rat?),

16 Leave a comment on verse 16 0 With the fetishisation of confection and money,

17 Leave a comment on verse 17 0 And where disobedience and mutinous self-expression

18 Leave a comment on verse 18 0 Have been gently press ganged into the national service

19 Leave a comment on verse 19 0 Of conformism, consumerism, capitalism and consumption.

20 Leave a comment on verse 20 0 Not so much 1914 – 2014, as 1984:

21 Leave a comment on verse 21 0 Orwellian double-speak,

22 Leave a comment on verse 22 0 Post-modernist history,

23 Leave a comment on verse 23 0 21st century store wars.

Notes

Editor Note:
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