I should explain what I meant by that last statement.
I mean the use of the images is disgusting because it
shows one very small group of mostly kids, teenagers,
and ignorant people celebrating what the news media
narrates. And their lives are born of the hatred they
have learned from war and exile: it is not a
justification of course if indeed it turns out the
images are at all legitimate. Were they real images,
or made in the studios?.. Robert Fisk does not doubt
their validity and I suspect he knows far more than
anyone I know, and he certainly knows the situation fo
the Middle East perhaps better than anyone alive....
Last week I was reading here the words of the master
media writer William S. Burroughs. He is a teacher and
has taught me never tot take words at face value, and
especially those of the media wizards. I suspect that
almost all of the things we have read are true: some
people celebrated, othes were shocked, and so on. An
all too human response to an all too human form of
destruction chaos and mayhem and this is what we have
witnessed, mayhem, bedlam and the terrible birth of
hell. Very sad and very much the time to be a Buddhist
and pray for the wheel of dharma to cease its spinning
forev er.
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I mean the use of the images is disgusting because it
shows one very small group of mostly kids, teenagers,
and ignorant people celebrating what the news media
narrates. And their lives are born of the hatred they
have learned from war and exile: it is not a
justification of course if indeed it turns out the
images are at all legitimate. Were they real images,
or made in the studios?.. Robert Fisk does not doubt
their validity and I suspect he knows far more than
anyone I know, and he certainly knows the situation fo
the Middle East perhaps better than anyone alive....
Last week I was reading here the words of the master
media writer William S. Burroughs. He is a teacher and
has taught me never tot take words at face value, and
especially those of the media wizards. I suspect that
almost all of the things we have read are true: some
people celebrated, othes were shocked, and so on. An
all too human response to an all too human form of
destruction chaos and mayhem and this is what we have
witnessed, mayhem, bedlam and the terrible birth of
hell. Very sad and very much the time to be a Buddhist
and pray for the wheel of dharma to cease its spinning
forev er.
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