I was at the grocery store shopping yesterday and a very weird thing happened.
As I was pushing my cart through the isles I began to notice that a voice had started up speaking over the intercom. It was a recording of course, but it was being played all over the store. It was some deep voiced patriotic sounding man talking about America. At first I dismissed it as a silly 4th of July tribute thing and just listened for a moment. It became increasingly clear that this "announcement" was more than just a tribute. What began as stars and stripes forever quickly morphed into a lengthy diatribe about 'freedom' and the "American dream". This guy went on and on and on....about justice and liberty and just how amazing America was, about how we were better than other nations, historically and otherwise, about how we wouldnt give into the oppression of terrorism.
I started to get really agitated, I got a feeling in my gut not dissimilar to what Neo might have felt when he woke up from The Matrix. All the while the guy kept making a point to say "America" over and over. It just went on and on and on and got progressively more passionate and agressive. I looked around to see if i was the only one who was noticing anything and everyone else seemed oblivious. It was probably the closest Ive ever come to feeling like I just landed in Orwell's 1984.
it was like a full on propoganda nightmare, right there in the friggin grocery store. I had to go check out immediately because I couldnt stand to hear it anymore.
Anyone else experience this kind of thing before, besides the obvious?