Have heard that elsewhere, too
I recall vividly the portrayals of 'Russkis', just shy of.. the WW-II caricatures of the "buck-toothed Japs". Want a War?
first dehumanize the enemy; then it's OK to Kill Them like bugs.
And it's odd for Muricans to ponder that, quite many of the USSR folks of those days.. received a wider more competent education than our vaunted version (with so much history rewritten about Presidents who 'cannot tell a lie'. ;-)
A grand illustration of the actual social effects, and across many decades!
of 'HomeLand Security', wherever practised. It's simply surreal that This Still Works, as only a near-complete ignorance of history would permit.
And in '02,3 here - that daily drumbeat, simple-minded execrable propaganda which We All heard in the lying lies of liars - re Saddam's IMMINENT THREAT to Kansas City, mom, apple-pie yada yada. Yup - still works.
(And if Saddam's utter ugliness were Just Cause for an invasion in '03, what then about All those Other antiparagons of injustice -- whom we supported for so long - including er Saddam hisself?) {sigh}
Don't Ask. (umm didn't Ari say Just That? about 9/12/01 or so)
I figure that, any time the color of the leather seats in one's Urban Assault Vehicle is a much larger personal concern than say, planning an invasion on another State?
That particular culture demonstrates clearly, It's Fucked.
So what else is new? There's no way to 'parse' any of this - I wonder what that 'means'?
Ashton
just watchin the dismantling process, izzall
(Finished reading Hunter S. Thompson's latest opus, Kingdom of Fear - maybe the last of the 'Fear and Loathing' series -- unless we can do More of the same..)
A bit of a ramble, but with some pointed examples of what 'Fucked' might mean, as regards a 'society' -- as usual with HST.
OK - back to the daily drill, children:
"Duck and Cover, Duck and Cover" (under your desk)
