18-09-2012, 09:22 PM
In back pages Charles referred to the JFK assassination as a dramatic construct.
On this page we are discussing that as a valid observation, namely that the murder which could have been committed more efficiently, quietly, in private was done in the square as a play.
Act Three, Scene V Dallas, Texas, a crowded, cheering motorcade punctuated by a bull ring with Don Juan's picadors, Reaper as matador.
Descent into the Vietnam maelstrom.
Rising through the sewer of Watergate.
Bobbing on a sea of oil.
Land is visible, shining towers
--only to be kamikazeed to miasma by forces around a statue in Baghdad and lurking in the caves of Smackistan.
The FBI which suppressed 99% of relevant information in the former act, saw to it that the potential hero of Act Four, John O'Neill, The Man Who Knew, was gagged and crushed in the collapse.
Now we proceed apace toward Act Five which is general war in the quadrilateral described by Eric Blair/George Orwell who saw it, limned it, shuffled off this mortal coil.
What rough beast--
What metaphor can save us?
Hercules cleans the Augean Stable by the Potomac.
And the crowd went wild.
Bravo!
Footnotes
It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger nor disheartened by obstacle not baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence. P.76
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In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening." (p.129)
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Soviet historians have long focused their attention on the attempts to reform the human self, and they bring up the new Soviet man as being essential to the Soviet project. The "totalitarian model" of Soviet society traditionally considered "the cog in a wheel" as a central metaphor for the new Soviet man.11
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On this page we are discussing that as a valid observation, namely that the murder which could have been committed more efficiently, quietly, in private was done in the square as a play.
Act Three, Scene V Dallas, Texas, a crowded, cheering motorcade punctuated by a bull ring with Don Juan's picadors, Reaper as matador.
Descent into the Vietnam maelstrom.
Rising through the sewer of Watergate.
Bobbing on a sea of oil.
Land is visible, shining towers
--only to be kamikazeed to miasma by forces around a statue in Baghdad and lurking in the caves of Smackistan.
The FBI which suppressed 99% of relevant information in the former act, saw to it that the potential hero of Act Four, John O'Neill, The Man Who Knew, was gagged and crushed in the collapse.
Now we proceed apace toward Act Five which is general war in the quadrilateral described by Eric Blair/George Orwell who saw it, limned it, shuffled off this mortal coil.
What rough beast--
What metaphor can save us?
Hercules cleans the Augean Stable by the Potomac.
And the crowd went wild.
Bravo!
Footnotes
It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger nor disheartened by obstacle not baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence. P.76
~~~
In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening." (p.129)
~~~
Soviet historians have long focused their attention on the attempts to reform the human self, and they bring up the new Soviet man as being essential to the Soviet project. The "totalitarian model" of Soviet society traditionally considered "the cog in a wheel" as a central metaphor for the new Soviet man.11
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