A New Coca Dawn

Submitted to Democracy

by Mario Scattoloni

Uploaded 14 Jun 2008 — 8 favorites

© Mario Scattoloni

I am going to rant a bit because it is late & 2day I drank a Coca-Cola after years of abstaining & this had a profound effect on me. Besides I can´t seem 2 get to sleep because of it. I am only posting this stupid image that I could care less about because of it. I also have nothing better 2 do right now thanks 2 the fact that the caffeine has hit me my bloodstream like a hammer....I really can´t stand corporate symbols in my work let alone on my person, yet something about this just seemed right. As an extracted root of the word COCA. It makes sense that we are all getting high off these corporate giants, so high that the octane fumes at the pump has made us into placid zombies. Corporate symbols represent a false sense of freedom 2 us today. I like 2 call this Coca-Cola the global aperitif, or our so called freedom juice as it has become 2 B. It really is all that is wrong within this greed driven world of ours. Whatever happen 2 global diversity anyways? I only see that we are becoming more like one another, while only living more in fear & loathing of our beloved neighbours,it would seem the more we share in common the less we seem 2 understand of one another with each passing day. I really do think there is something 2 B said about a culture that has remained virginally pure 4 so many centuries, viva l ´amazon people who escaped us until recently, as our world spun out of control they lived in the pure state of bliss. We can proudly say that we have now finally succeeded in closing another chapter in the history of humankind. Not unlike the Coca Cola

Ad´s from the 70´s that had envisioned an endearing yet somewhat fantasy world of peace & harmony while we all stood together joined in hands & song. Somehow we can no longer live in such delusional realities as we continue to commit the worst of our 10 deadly sins upon each other, as we all merry merry flow down that stream of dreams. We have all long ago been sold down that river, that false one that seems 2 peak our sense of freedom. Yet, we continue 2 lie there sleeping becoming more enslaved 2 there addictions. Freedom remains a state of mind & images & text is our pen that we yield as a communal force 2 B heard....I really don´t know why I wrote all this verbal non sense, but I do know that somehow I feel better 4 it. Besides I have always prefered PEP-SI 2 COCA- COLA. Cheers.

5 responses

  • J. Harris Blacklist

    J. Harris Blacklist   gave props (14 Jun 2008):

    This evokes happiness in me...

  • Jesse Merz

    Jesse Merz gave props (14 Jun 2008):

    Very symbolic, great red overtone

  • John Linton

    John Linton gave props (14 Jun 2008):

    Cool technique.

  • Jeff Kennel

    Jeff Kennel said (14 Jun 2008):

    Great photo for the Democracy Theme...American "Democracy", really Neo-Colonialism in disguise, is all about screwing over developing countries and forcing them to allow companies like Coca-Cola to come in and rake in the profit, all at the expense of the poor and usually to the benefit of people like Pinochet and other unsavory dictators that did the U.S.'s dirty work.

  • John Linton

    John Linton gave props (17 Jun 2008):

    Oh yeah! It rocks!

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