Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group

by Ian F. Svenonius

And yet there is no actual demand for this world of sewage. Furthermore, the commissioners of the new gum wrappers/condominiums/automobiles don’t believe they are improving things. They understand very well the shock and horror they inflict on the public. They design this horror purposefully, in fact, with the express intent of manufacturing nostalgia. Nostalgia for a bygone era and a lost sensibility. But to invoke such longing, they must first exterminate the prevailing sensibility—suddenly, violently, and in cold blood. Why? Because nostalgia—the longing for the familiar—is the most potent of all emotions. As such, it is an invaluable asset to be manipulated by the ruling clique for social control. But our natural nostalgia—for dead relatives, one’s own youth, social circumstances which inevitably change—is too personal to be of use to the elites. In order to manipulate nostalgia, the ruling class needs to control what it is, and therefore they manufacture it out of commodities, the availability and appearance of which they determine via their capital and ownership of the means of production.