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Posted 2015-03-04 2:18 PM (#9823 - in reply to #9813)
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I just finished reading The Space Merchants. Mitch Courtenay is an ad agency wonk that happily generates lies and deceit about a planned mission to colonize Venus. A shadowy organization known as "The Consies" opposes the powerful corporations intent on fueling the rampant consumerism causing widespread human suffering and environmental disaster. When Mitch finds out his wife Kathy is a Consie, he calls her "...a lying fanatic and a bitch." When he explains the Consie manifesto to his boss Fowler Schocken, Fowler says "...you're talking like a Consie" and Mitch replies "Why, so I am. That's terrible." Seven pages later, Mitch takes over the ad agency after Schocken's death and immediately reveals "...I had learned to despise everything for which it stood." Like a light switch, no soul searching, no epiphanies, no insights into Mitch's momentous decision. Such an about-face seems clumsy and unbelievable.

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