On a lighter note…
My boss just enlightened me today of the “Yes Men”, a group of guys that at first seemed to me like just another “Da Ali G Show”, but in a large group. But apparently, they have been around for a while (almost as long as Sasha Baron Cohen has been putting on fake austrian accents and gracing the world with his comedic genious) and have way more of a political swing to them.
The first thing I read up on them was about their SurvivaBalls campaign, in which 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 thoroughly 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,” he said to an attentive and appreciative audience.”
This is a SurvivaBall
Yes, guys. The only rational way to accomodate 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 love it when people can make influential sociocultural and/or political statements through the extreme of the reverse; Stephen Colbert, Sasha Baron Cohen, and now these guys. Anybody who is too thick-headed to understand the true comedic genius of these people 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.”
AND LET’S NOT FORGET…Bruno comes out this Friday!
My main man and his son, OJ
