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How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking __he Dodge Rebellion_? How is one to be bona fide iconoclast when Burger King sells onion rings with __ometimes You Gotta Break the Rules_? How can an Image-Fiction writer hope to make people more critical of televisual culture by parodying television as a self-serving commercial enterprise when Pepsi and Subaru and FedEx parodies of self-serving commercials are already doing big business? It__ almost a history lesson: I__ starting to see just why turn-of-the-century Americans_ biggest fear was of anarchist and anarchy. For if anarchy actually wins, if rulelessness become the rule, then protest and change become not just impossible but incoherent. It__ be like casting a ballot for Stalin: you are voting for an end to all voting.
David Foster Wallace A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking __he Dodge Rebellion_? How is one to be bona fide iconoclast when Burger King sells onion rings with __ometimes You Gotta Break the Rules_? How can an Image-Fiction writer hope to make people more critical of televisual culture by parodying television as a self-serving commercial enterprise when Pepsi and Subaru and FedEx parodies of self-serving commercials are already doing big business? It__ almost a history lesson: I__ starting to see just why turn-of-the-century Americans_ biggest fear was of anarchist and anarchy. For if anarchy actually wins, if rulelessness become the rule, then protest and change become not just impossible but incoherent. It__ be like casting a ballot for Stalin: you are voting for an end to all voting.
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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