Ben Fairhall has been following the strange goings-on and wildly-conflicting cover stories dealing with the smashed turbine in Lincolnshire. Whatever happened there is open to debate, but the goon squad has been called in nonetheless.The Sun web page Ben linked us to is an absolute gold mine of semiotic mumbo-jumbo. We see the Anubian dog standing guard over the wrecked turbine. We see the parents of the coming Siamese twins under the banner MY Sun (meaning, "not yours"), and "devil-headed" beneath them.
The completely superfluous story on Area 51 (3x17) that labels anyone who doesn't buy the official line as a "UFO fanatic." A link to Germany, which we saw in the McDonald's ad. I love the Mate 1 logo, with its obvious coital symbolism as well as the pictures of girls you will never have sex with.
Reader William pointed us to a strange photo feature in England's Daily Telegraph. Entitled "Blackjack," it's kind of a low-rent version of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast, only dealing with a fictional terrorist attack.
The symbolism is bizarre- the attack takes place around the Summer Solstice and incorporates solar imagery ("New Dawn"). They also incorporate the Ferris Wheel and Seen From Space imagery that we've been looking at so much lately.
I don't what they're playing at here, besides the obvious propaganda effect. It's all a jumble. Perhaps there is some subconscious recognition that western hubs like London are in decline as the new megalopolises of the East rise?
Stay tuned and tell me what you think.
