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> and even normalizes the object of satire

That's the genius of the "manufacture of consent" techniques developed since the XVIII century. Advertising refined to nth degree conquers (almost) all.

Nothing short of blind fanatical rejection can withstand it, but even that is contained into a few pockets and used as a bogeyman.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine an advertisement shoved on a human face - forever." (Sorry, Eric.)

>Nothing short of blind fanatical rejection can withstand it, but even that is contained into a few pockets and used as a bogeyman.

I'm sure most HN readers already know this, but just feel the need to shout out to Snowcrash, one of the more interesting literary treatments of this topic. The thesis being that most humans are susceptible to NLP mind control except a small subset who happen to have the supremely logical minds of systems engineers. They had to first be taken out by a mind bomb cleverly concealed in visual display static.

And that bit of Snowcrash always reminds me of Blit, a short story published in Interzone. It's got a few mentions on HN before too.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

> If you want a picture of the future, imagine...

There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the brand of phone in your pocket. There will be no love, except the love of celebrities #0000A through #9999F. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of pity over a defeated reality TV show contestant.

I really appreciate the old-style print link at the bottom: https://www.neh.gov/print/35511

I hate the modern way of just using a print stylesheet, though that's mainly because it makes it more difficult to get a clean, readable copy into Evernote.

If that's how pages are now, Evernote should just write a custom renderer that uses the proper css. (or I guess they could write a bunch of print drivers but that seems hairier...)
The silence from the HN crowd is deafening.
Nice that it made it to the front page, though.
Indeed.