What? Nobody wants to touch the Social Security “war room”… LOL! War on terra. War on drugs. War on crime. War on poverty… how far shall we go back? Who began the whole “war on” thing? Johnson… war on poverty… Nixon was the first instigator for the war on drugs… Nancy only added the decorative “Just Say No.”
A system at perpetual war. They don’t need guns even though they prefer guns to anything else.
Keep sleeping, sleepers. Keep voting. You remember… it’s not important WHO you vote for, only that you VOTE.
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Mar 7 2005 4:02 utc | 1
i too noticed the lack of comments here – but as wittgenstein said, “of that which one cannot speak, one must remain silent”
or as the smothers brothers said, “they whistle [the tune to ‘Col. Bogey’s March’, the theme song of the movie “Bridge over the River Kwai”] because the words are dirty”
i suppose another reason we haven’t been coming here is because of competing events – another example of propaganda is a less compelling issue than what appears to be the attempted assassination of the italian reporter
one wonders what will happen next – how far down is the bottom, from which we presumably will bounce back? (or will we?)
may the creative forces of the universe have mercy on our souls, if any
Posted by: mistah charley | Mar 7 2005 12:09 utc | 2
First thing I thought when I read this post was “so the Bushitas are hypocrits, liars and use war analogies, big news”. Then I felt very tired and a bit ashamed. I mean, when outright hypocrisy and lying becomes so standard that I can´t be bothered to react any more, then… well… what?
Posted by: A swedish kind of death | Mar 7 2005 12:17 utc | 3
Yup, nothing to say on this one: we’ve all see it so often before it didn’t seem worth remarking on, especially with so much else happening around here.
I think it’s “outrage fatigue”. after a while the abuses, lies, scandals have a numbing effect. I think I said this a few months ago, but I’m beginning to understand that deadpan, fatalistic, very dark Russian sense of humour. maybe you have to live under a series of comic-opera regimes which are simultaneously seriously, lethally repressive, to develop it.