“Welcome my son. Welcome to the machine. Where have you been? It’s all right, we know just where you’ve been.” And so it goes in the modern digital era, though those lyrics were aimed at us back in 1975. Go figure. Little did we know back then, or suspect what music, media and entertainment are used for. Back then up was still up, down was still down… or at least that is what we thought was true. But here we are, 55 years later waking up to the fact that nothing is as it seemed all those decades ago. And as “The Grand Illusion” is unmasked in the modern era, there is no doubt that – you are now the product. This raises the question; will the product remain the product after mass realization? (Read more…)