So Claire finds, below, that
[Pattern Recognition] spoke to a deep longing inside of me to have one of those *cool* capitalist jobs where you get paid heaps and live this really cushy lifestyle with little gadgets for really doing nothing more than critiquing the revolting excesses of capitalist marketing. how do you get a job like that?
Well, I did hear that Naomi Klein did the corporate speaking circuit for a while. : ) Or did I totally make that up? Ha. Actually, now that we're on the subject, William Gibson is actually a member of the Global Business Network, along with Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Manuel Bloody Marxist Castells and Francis Fucking Reaganite Fukuyama. This strange collection of people was started by a cabal of old oil executives (a different cabal from the one occupying the White House) to do strategic consulting for multinational corporations (and, strangely enough, the ANC). They have cocktail parties on yachts with Russian mafia types. Weird.
thanks for the employment tip. although i’m not sure the GBN was quite what i had in mind. i think i just want to be cayce pollard but i do like colour in my clothing and let’s face it, i’m just not as cool. i find women characters like her very interesting. she’s this weird mix of toughness and vulnerability — and sometimes both of those aspects are really cliched in this “ideal” woman kind of a way. like in “how to lose a guy in ten days” kate hudson’s character is everything stereotypically bad about women in relationships. cayce pollard feels a little unreal to me. like she’s something a collective of leftie boys dreamed up. anyway those are just my late night ravings.