Nathan Tyree: Mooninite Thought Crime
In Boston, some marketing guys out to hype Aqua Teen Hunger Force placed funny little boxes about the city. These boxes looked like Lite Brites, with the lights arranged to create the image of one of the Mooninites flipping the bird. The whole thing was quite funny.
The marketers have been arrested, being charged under a law that makes it a crime to perpetrate a hoax that could cause panic. How fucking weird is that.
I guess we should have put Orson Welles in prison.
David's discussion about Dateline over at his R@R site got me to thinking about how, more and more, we are creating laws (or reinterpreting laws) that, quite draconianally, attempt to control thought (or at least to punish thought). We as a society also seem to be restricting harmless behaviors a lot (before I get yelled at, the mooninites are harmless; sexual predators obviously aren't and that isn't what I meant).
I wonder if this is really the direction we want to go.
In Boston, some marketing guys out to hype Aqua Teen Hunger Force placed funny little boxes about the city. These boxes looked like Lite Brites, with the lights arranged to create the image of one of the Mooninites flipping the bird. The whole thing was quite funny.
The marketers have been arrested, being charged under a law that makes it a crime to perpetrate a hoax that could cause panic. How fucking weird is that.
I guess we should have put Orson Welles in prison.
David's discussion about Dateline over at his R@R site got me to thinking about how, more and more, we are creating laws (or reinterpreting laws) that, quite draconianally, attempt to control thought (or at least to punish thought). We as a society also seem to be restricting harmless behaviors a lot (before I get yelled at, the mooninites are harmless; sexual predators obviously aren't and that isn't what I meant).
I wonder if this is really the direction we want to go.
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I think the lesson here is that people are stupid, both the guy who called it in thinking it was a bomb and the people who put it there in the first place, apparently not realizing somebody was going to be stupid and overreact. Just think, though, with all this controversy and everything, how much free publicity this movie is getting.