all we are saying…

photo via Last Night’s Dinner

From How to Lie With Statistics, illustration by Irving Geis:

“They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. THEY LIVE.”
–John Carpenter’s “They Live”

“Mandala of Avalokiteshvara (Nyingma)
surrounded by the 100 peaceful
and wrathful deities of the Bardo”

Bono’s “Mirror Ball Man” from the Zoo TV Tour was a parody (a mirror?) of American televangelists: