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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Shock news: worldwide run on contempt

So, on the 12th of September 2001, how many of us thought that the day before would be commemorated with a country music concert within five years? Oh, OK, most of you, then. Funnily enough I never imagined they would stoop this low. I really need to work on my faith in human nature. It's completely overinflated. Update: this makes me feel more sick than I have felt in years. It is utterly and contemptibly shameless. Break it down into its constituent parts, and you get:
  • The Pentagon organising public events and marches to support the government.
  • A deliberate attempt to conflate 9/11 and Iraq, again, in the face of overwhelming evidence against a link
  • A desperate grab at public opinion - they may well support their soldiers, who are dying daily, but they want the war over
  • A shameless appeal to Jesusland the Republican heartland, from an arm of government: Country music
There really is only one word for this: prolefeed. "America Supports You Freedom March". Just who is that message aimed at? Soldiers, or the President?

posted by Michael at 8/11/2005 12:54:00 AM  

2 Comments:

Tim said...

I said a sense of proportion had been lost after the first or second "anniversary". Look: what, 3000 dead folks in NY? And that compares *how* to the approximately 70 million that died in World Wars 1 and 2? And we give them what, 2 minutes' silence every 11/11, if we remember? Isn't that the definition of short-sighted legislation, that it's not designed thinking "it'll all be the same in 60 years"?

8/11/2005 09:52:00 AM  

Michael said...

I think the issue here is that proportion is not what they want.

They are all about creating a unique sense of injustice and milking it. As Karen said on the livejournal comment feed: "bread and circuses".

What shocks me is that even rather sophisticated, manipulative scum like Donald Rumsfeld end up building Minitrue, despite the devastating literary precedent.

8/11/2005 05:03:00 PM  

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