24-05-2015, 08:54 AM
Jimmie Moglia of Your Daily Shakespeare puts it like this:
To conclude, the Administration has shown great alacrity of enterprise in organizing the death of Osama Bin Laden, including the genius of making him die twice. And I refuse to say which of the two versions is true. For even denying that it is impossible to die twice, may be construed as a symptom of conspiracy theorizing, a sinful rejection of belief due to incredibility.
Many believe that gross and ever-widening mendacity is indispensable to current American foreign and domestic policy. For the role of the US government is to defend the interests of a few thousand individuals, while pretending to represent the American people as a whole. Lying is therefore intrinsic to its operation.
Naturally, the regime media is the anointed instrument of mass deception. But the general silence and perceived mass indifference to even colossal misrepresentations is a good index. Namely that the commandment to believe anything, provided it is quite incredible, has found a wide, willing and captive audience. It would be tempting to give a persona to judgment and exclaim, "O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts and men have lost their reason."(5) But that would be a useless cry. For in our deeply Orwellian world ignorance is strength where strength also implies the belief in the incredible and the accompanying ignorance of evidence. In the end, as we ponder on our inability to change anything, we are left to play the fool with the times, while the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. (6)
5. Julius Caesar
6. King Henry IV, part 2
To conclude, the Administration has shown great alacrity of enterprise in organizing the death of Osama Bin Laden, including the genius of making him die twice. And I refuse to say which of the two versions is true. For even denying that it is impossible to die twice, may be construed as a symptom of conspiracy theorizing, a sinful rejection of belief due to incredibility.
Many believe that gross and ever-widening mendacity is indispensable to current American foreign and domestic policy. For the role of the US government is to defend the interests of a few thousand individuals, while pretending to represent the American people as a whole. Lying is therefore intrinsic to its operation.
Naturally, the regime media is the anointed instrument of mass deception. But the general silence and perceived mass indifference to even colossal misrepresentations is a good index. Namely that the commandment to believe anything, provided it is quite incredible, has found a wide, willing and captive audience. It would be tempting to give a persona to judgment and exclaim, "O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts and men have lost their reason."(5) But that would be a useless cry. For in our deeply Orwellian world ignorance is strength where strength also implies the belief in the incredible and the accompanying ignorance of evidence. In the end, as we ponder on our inability to change anything, we are left to play the fool with the times, while the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. (6)
5. Julius Caesar
6. King Henry IV, part 2