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Series: Fear
Title: Dogma
Description: 4"x6" Card Stock, various colors
Number of cards in run: 70
Number remaining: 1
Release Date: September 2004
Verbiage:
Truth matters:
An unswerving allegiance to what one believes is not a sign that one cares about truth. It is a sign of dogmatism. Caring about the truth does not mean never having to admit that one is wrong. Caring about the truth means that one must be open to the possibility that one’s own beliefs are mistaken.
True beliefs are those that portray the world as it is and not as we hope or wish it to be. If truth is objective, then believing something does not make it so.
It is not a virtue to hold fast to one’s views in the face of facts.
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Series: Information Theory
Title: Free?
Description: 4"x6" Card Stock, various colors. First in the series.
Number of cards in run: 45
Number remaining: 0
Release Date: July 2004
Verbiage:
Fact or chatter? Signal or noise?
The production of meaning through languages - whether spoken, written, or pictorial - has become a central part of generating and producing memes in our society. Those who control the media control the production of meaning.
Those who control the production of meaning shape the terms of debate and have the power to manufacture consent.
If media, corporations, and/or governments continually repeat a fallacy does the fallacy become fact?
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Series: FEAR
Title: Zealot
Description: 4"x6" Card Stock, various colors
Number of cards in run: 70
Number remaining: 0
Release Date: October 2004
Verbiage:
Z is for Zealot:
Those who believe they hold all the answers make the most mischief .
Because the zealot believes he is always right (or called or chosen), he frequently assumes he has been anointed as humanity’s protector. A standard line is to declare that God commands his actions. This person is incapable of self-criticism and intolerant of dissenting views. One is either with him or against him.
When religious fervor and political power converge, social dangers emerge.
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Series: Random
Title: Sofa-cat-dog
Description: 4"x6" Card Stock, various colors
Number of cards in run: 45
Number remaining: 2
Release Date: September 2004
Verbiage:
No verbiage as yet. This is a re-issue. The original, (1994) run of about 10 cards was sent out to 5 people. The image was used in a playbill for the play "Cheese?" written and directed by Anne Fliotsos and Bob Johnson and performed at the University of Maryland.
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Series: FEAR
Title: Terror Condition: FEAR
Description: 4"x6" Card Stock, various colors
Number of cards in run: 45
Number remaining: 1
Release Date: August 2004
Verbiage:
Presidential Wars:
Johnson had “The War on Poverty”. Yet there is poverty.
Reagan had “The War on Drugs”. Yet there are illicit drugs.
W has “The War on Terror”. Yet there are terrorists.
“It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist…” [Orwell, 1984]
As for freedom, the American public has been told that certain sacrifices will be necessary for victory in the War on Terrorism, and that those sacrifices would come primarily in the form of privacy and civil liberties. In other words, in order to preserve liberty, we must destroy it.
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Series: EYE
Title: CONSUME
Description: 4"x6" Card Stock, black, brown
Number of cards in run: 54
Number remaining: 0
Release Date: December 2004
Verbiage:
Sam’s Club, Costco, Walmart… Do we really need a gallon jar of pickles?
We consume a variety of resources and products today, moving beyond basic needs to include luxury items and technological
innovations. Such consumption beyond minimal and basic needs is not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. However, increasingly,
there are important issues around consumerism that need to be understood. For example: How are the products and resources we consume
actually produced? What are the impacts of the processes of production on the environment, society and individuals? What are the
impacts of consumption on the environment, society, and individuals? Which actors influence our choices of consumption?
Which actors influence how and why things are produced or not? What is a necessity and what is a luxury? Businesses
and advertising are major engines in promoting the consumption of products. How much of what we consume is influenced by their needs versus our needs? |
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Series: FEAR
Title: You Are the Product
Description: 4"x6" Card Stock, various colors
Number of cards in run: 45
Number remaining: 0
Release Date: November 2004
Verbiage:
Whoever controls your source of information controls you. -W.E.B. DuBois
Big media and the news organizations they control are no longer independent of government or corporations. Indeed, these news organizations have become the mouthpieces of governments and corporations and they can sell you anything, particularly fear.
Your mind is for sale. Up your asking price.
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Series: FEAR
Title: Return to Normal
Description: 4"x6" Card Stock, various colors
Number of cards in run: 45
Number remaining: 3
Release Date: November 2004
Verbiage:
Revenons à nos moutons
The American public has a short attention span. Long after the present administration has left office and our roads and
schools are crumbling, our public institutions and programs lie in waste, and our land, water and atmosphere are a toxic
cocktail, we will blame whoever is in office. Few will remember the policies and crimes of the government that drove
us to ruin.
We will be too busy praying to the only state sanctioned God. |
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