Just saw “Wanted”, a really great film.  the culture-jamming which originated with William Burroughs and emerged fully into the pop mainstream with “The Matrix” is now a fully developed subgenre of action movie. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, although some might find it so.  Culture-jamming doesn’t accomplish much anyway without psychic development.  The whole phenomenon is really just an offshoot of the Return of Magic.  All really sincere culture-jammers wind up as occultists sooner or later.  

“Wanted” even has a great soundtrack single, “the Little Things” by danny elfman.  

There’s a line in it that goes

“Armageddon may arrive any day, i can’t get away from the little things”

This about sums up our situation as a civilization this summer of 2008.  Everyone who’s hip knows the world is ending and the interdimensional gates are opening, whether 2012 means anything or not.  but here we still sit with crippling credit debt (personal and national), idiot political candidates, companies so corrupt it’s funny, an economic system completely degraded and no future in sight, while goofy idiot religious conservatives agonize over meaningless nonsense and drag us all down a sewer of irrationality.  We’re all little things now, all our hopes and dreams, just waiting for the Big Fire at the end of everything.

At least we can know, through movies like this, that there were other people out there who understood, even if we couldn’t stop the big train wreck at the end of time.  

the “revolution” we all need is psychic, not cultural, but movies and other little things like this get us closer and closer all the time.