We're talking about scam and fraud but there is also a thriving, highly profitable and legal industry in Faux Art--paintings that are fakes, copies and presented as such with "buyer-beware" certificates and upfront, incessant winks of the eye. In both cases, fakes or faux, the driving motive is outsourcing, shadow contracting, tempered with compulsive consumption and no small amount of greed. It's a motive that can be applied wholesale and reveals a bewildering array of assumptions.
Fakes, Forgeries and The Madnesses of Crowds--such as:
The U.S. government and its "virtual" President, a clone of one of America's most beloved public philosophers - "Howdy Doody".
So-called Reality television, with actors who cannot act, writers who do not write, and producers who trained a McDonald's.
The "virtual" music in Rap.
YouTube and Myspace.
The "virtual" photography of mobile phones.
The army of private contractors who conduct the "virtual" war in Iraq.
The army of private contractors who are creating new "virtual" American towns and cities without the need for elections.
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