An old boss recently helped me discover the “Yes Men”, a group of guys that at first seemed to me like just another “Da Ali G Show.” After conducting some further research, I discovered they have been around for a while (almost as long as Sasha Baron Cohen has put on fake austrian accents and gracing the world with his neon unitard) and have way more of a political swing.
One notable action was their SurvivaBalls campaign, where they designed large bubble costumes to “save corporate managers from abrupt climate change.” They posed as the company Halliburton @ the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida. My first question is, who in the right mind would attend a conference called Catastrohpic loss? Apparently people entirely bereft of rational thought process, because the audience believed that the SurvivaBall was legit. They ate up the speech with lines from ‘Fred Wolf’ like, I quote; “This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate change.”
- This is a SurvivaBall
Yes. The only rational way to accommodate the inevitable climate change that will occur as a result of global warming. “It’s essentially a gated community for one;” a “forward-thinking” solution so corporate profits do not have to be sacrificed to cut carbon emissions by 70%.
These guys are genius. I hugely admire when people can make influential sociocultural and/or political statements through satire; Stephen Colbert, Sasha Baron Cohen, and undoubtedly the Yes Men. Dare I say South Park? Lets not get too crazy. Anybody who is too thick-headed to understand the true comedic genius of their ‘truthiness’ I hope isn’t reading my blog. Check out more of the YesMen @ their site, apparently they have a movie in the works as well! They have some great new stories, such as “WTO Proposes Slavery for Africa,” and ” Exxon’s Climate-Victim Candles.”
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