12-09-2010, 06:35 PM
I wasn't sure what thread to put this Abu Ghraib/rape story in but, of course, yon Klimkowski fellow has it correctly above. Elsewhere, I have noted my self-diagnosis of "cultural estrangement" and indeed even the theft of my nation and its values. The military psyops nature of the genesis of this thing is correct as far as it goes in this locality but we know also that the purposeful induction of what was termed elsewhere (lost the source, alas) as "the normalization of abnormality" into our culture through fundamanentalist practice, ritualized practices, and the perversions of "belonging" (did anyone note that the new ghoul in economics is a Skull and Bones member?) has trickled down to our 20- and 30-somethings. I note that the leading 9/11 truther is a theologian with expertise in the study of evil. The troops are taking finger trophies and killing for sport (no doubt that has somehow come home to America already as well), and one soldier emptied his clip into the body of a dead child 'to make sure'.
Where is Hannah Arendt when we need her? Well, Arthur Silber's work is archived.
Can we do an epidemiological tracing of this to determine the fomites and the vectors?
Can we mimic John Snow and construct a map of the outbreak?
Where is Hannah Arendt when we need her? Well, Arthur Silber's work is archived.
Can we do an epidemiological tracing of this to determine the fomites and the vectors?
Can we mimic John Snow and construct a map of the outbreak?
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"