Subj : Re: Iraq and Democracy
To   : Finnigann
From : Daemon
Date : Sat Oct 15 2005 18:32:00

  Re: Re: Iraq and Democracy
  By: Finnigann to Daemon on Sat Oct 15 2005 05:54 pm

 > *MY* radio statins were all-a-buzz with the staged conversations with US
 > Soldiers. being rehersed and scripted.

  *nods*  There's possibly more scripting and general spin going on right now,
from ALL sides, than I think I've ever seen before.  With an electorate whose
attention span and ability to comprehend complex arguments has dwindled as
badly as ours has over the last hundred years, political rhetoric in general is
going to have a heyday for at least the next few election cycles.

  The administration, for instance.  One thing they definitely have pegged
exactly right is the manipulation of ignorance.  Too may people have a hard
enough time digesting a double-negative.  Throw them a double-negative from two
opposite and simultaneous perspectives, then follow immediately with another
predicated on one or both, and then continue, and THEN jump from one level of
incongruity to another randomly because each level has already been stated as a
fundamental, and the resulting confusion makes it practically impossible for
the majority to keep objectivity in sight at all.

  (To clarify...  The above is in regards to the puddle-jumping method of
justification for the Iraq invasion that still has a huge segment of the
electorate totally misinformed about the facts.)

  Meanwhile, though...  The other side of the fence does pretty much the same
thing, but from multiple sources if not with multiple sets of reasonings, so
that while the message being sent might seem to be the same, it's muddled by
barely-cohesive arguments that don't fit together easily.  In fact, on the
whole, taken together they can't really be taken for much more than petulance
and single-minded devotion to negativity (because many of those who criticize
have been enablers along the way of exactly that which they criticize).

  Which is a shame because that's not discourse that's being offered as an
alternative to what's being simplistically painted as pure unilateralism, nor
is it any kind of identifiable and united structure for remedy.

  I mean, realistically...  What we have right now is one side spinning, and
the other side pointing fingers and declaring "SPIN!" just before launching
spin of their own.

  *shakes head*  Both ways.  And who makes out?  The damned media which is
nothing more today than a collection of corporate entities pretending to be
voices of the people.  No matter what the issue, no matter who says or does
what, count on the corporate media to blare the most succulent details to the
far corners of the nation to suck the last possible dollar out of our pockets
for their sponsors, profiting the most at those times when we are being served
the least by all involved.

  And we wonder why things are so bad?  Maybe because our information is being
controlled by those who profit from the misfortune they EAGERLY enable.

  *scratches head*  Maybe I ranted a bit off topic?


  

       [daemon]                 
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