22-12-2009, 10:41 PM
Ed Jewett Wrote:Yes, meatsacks. Bag of skin and bones. Closely akin to the phrase "useless eaters" or any of a wide number of de-humanizing phrases. I don't think the term was used in the military-industrial giants press release, though, and I detect a certain sardonicism in the writer's write-up. But since the world is into the procurement of the meat inside the bag without prior consent and for re-sale, we are call cattle or chattel or ...
Indeed, Ed.
I took a look at the url and it does seem to contain a mixture of sardonic interpretation and original corporate release.
Sadly, I wouldn't be remotely surprized to see some dehumanized corporate profiteers use terms such as "meatsacks" in their everyday discourse.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war