The Plenitude of Emptiness

We were forced to watch the news everyday at school. Which doesn't sound controversial, until one understands that it was adverts with a splash of news, not news with a splash of adverts. The propaganda (and message to buy! buy! buy!) was so overt that the students had no doubt that this was bull. The stupid TV show had screwed up our class schedules and gave our "sponsors" more say about our day than any salesman ever should. We rebelled as much as we could get away with, chatting, turning o...