Reality Delayed.

The World Service is brilliant, it’s on Radio4 during the night, but sod all use to get to sleep with because it’s too interesting. Last night Brett Cohen an office worker in the New York music industry decided to act famous. He gathered some friends together as bodyguards, PA, film crew and interviewer and set out on a two block three minute walk probably near Time Square or somewhere to make a video about celebrity. It took over two hours. Passers by immediately thronged around them. Could they take a picture with, who is it? Brett Cohen. Yeh with Brett? Do you have any of his records? Yeh I think his last one. Do you like his music? Yeh it’s great. Interviewed people thought he was just so natural, nice guy, good looking, gorgeous etc. So Brett posted the video on Youtube and it went viral. He began to be famous as the man who wasn’t famous and appeared on numerous chat shows, and now he actually is famous. For not being famous; a celebrity with nothing to celebrate. Allan Curtis’s four part documentary, ‘The Century of Self’ available on the net is a must watch! It charts almost a hundred years of the domestication of America minds by the psychology of Freud, Edward Béarnaise, Anna Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Fritz Pearl, encounter groups and focus groups up until around 2000. It paints a dystopian picture of minds schooled to focus on a myriad of unrealities. And at this weekend’s Indianapolis Moto GP races were delayed because the starting lights didn’t work, the track is boring and the only US rider on an American machine, albeit with an Austrian engine, ran last, broke down twice and fell off. So focusing on unrealities doesn’t get results. And then there’s China who have recently passed a law banning reincarnation without government approval. I kid you not. It just goes to show super powers really are the domain of cartoon heroes.