R.A.G.E. Media

“…and you shall be like God…”
-Genesis 3:5

There was only one actor in that ancient drama [Eden] who seems to have had any real talent of salesmanship. He seems to have undertaken to deliver the goods with exactly the right preliminaries of promise and praise… He not only took up the slogan of Eat More Fruit, but he distinctly declared that any customer purchasing his particular brand of fruit would instantly become as gods. And as this is exactly what is promised to purchasers of every patent medicine, popular tonic, saline draught or medicinal wine at the present day, there can be no question that he was in advance of his age. It is extraordinary that humanity, which began with an apple and ended with the patent medicine, has not even yet become exactly like gods. It is still more extraordinary…that the record ends with some extraordinary remarks to the effect that one thus pursing the bright career of Salesmanship is condemned to crawl on his stomach and eat a great deal of dirt.

-G.K. Chesterton, in G.K.’s Weekly, March 23 1929

Might I humbly add, these same promises are made to women in regards to birth control, and the side effects on the packaging are even dire. Oddly enough, both theological and pharmaceutical language refers to the chance of death as “mortality.”

Original Painting: Cranach’s Eve