The manufacture of stories. Are you denying that Palestinians and people in Pakistan celebrated? Are you denying that the women in Afghanistan were/are brutally oppressed by the Taliban?
And if not..then what is the point of your diatribe below? Since if the answer to the above two questions is no, logic dictates that these people ARE opposed to the Western way of life, and to America perhaps more specifically, given everything we know about them. You don't Generalise a population based on a few, but when a majority and their leaders say..or rather do NOT say certain things..then you start to get the idea of where they are coming from as a people. When you add the fact that many of the people in the general population don't have a damned CLUE what is going on in the outside world and know only what those in power choose to tell them, the idea becomes even clearer. Yes stories are pushed more than others, and yes the September 11th attacks have sickeningly become a political tool to push forward what I think are grossly alarming policies and laws (Like this f***ing facist Military Tribunal sh**). I personally think that the terrorists have already won and Sept 11th has begun the slide of America toward a country that will be a shadow of its free self. (All for the good of the people of course).But I still can't understand your statements nor the examples you used. No one is 'fostering hatred'...many of those people already hate us. Can't you see that? Someone told me once, that because of the strong religious and ethnic ties, the muslims of the Arab world will always stick together no matter what when the sh** hits the fan. So.. If it is All For One And One For All... then shouldn't Peter Pay For Paul, and Paul Pay For All? -Gel -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Falloon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:08 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Massive blasts rock Central Jerusalem :( Michael, Why do you insist on basing your discussions of the world on the pin-prick sized appeture of television? Television news is manufacured, processed, produced, packaged and cosumed like soap, nike sneakers or the friends sit-com. Don't you think it would be wiser to consider that perhaps there more people in the world with even more diverse oppinions than those clinically selected (with specific intention) and represented by corporate journalists? How can you generalise a population of millions/billions based a short clip of footage engineered by western journalists with a western narrative aired by the western mass media? Don't you think that there are more important issues to deal with than spending your intellectual efforts fosering hatred of 'other people' who have their own culture, unique and idiosyncratic - seperate from ours. Of course there are many people in the world who would have celebrated the attacks due to their own oppressed poor militarised existences. But this does not mean that we should expend effort trying to prove to each other that 'they' are evil and against 'us'. The western media is at best, extrodinatily limited in it's representation of 'real people' in the middle east (or media east as it's exists for us). Furthermore, it's representation is more often designed to promote this kind of discussion by manufacture of 'stories' (one of these being the celebrating Palistinians, another being the oppression of women in Aphganistan for example). These stories are the developed and made self referencial, repeated over and over by all media outlets until they become the measure of oppinion polls on presidencial popularity. There simplify polarize and synthasize politics and culture for the fast food culture that is America. Benjamin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
