Violence ON Demand
jporter
jp4321 at IDT.NET
Fri Jan 26 07:00:25 CST 2001
Any of you other droogies *forced* to watch a very dark skinned South
American B-Ball player Kol'Konk a very light skinned referee, over and over
again on the late tv news last night? Sheesh... Its only been, what, a week?
And already the image manipulation teams are busy. Guess *they* don't
require senate confirmation.
Speaking of tv images, how about the latency of that feetage wherein "mr.
typical white taxpayer guy" approaches W., as if there were no security at
all, on inauguration day, shakes his hand, and slips him a coin? The same
man, apparently, did the same thing to Clinton on his inauguration, they
said. Neither now nor then was he arrested, the news reader said, "because
he broke no laws." Talk about granting unto....
Where is Winston Smith when we need him?
A few questions about V., before I sign off for awhile (some pressing
responsibilities):
- Is Fina The Goddess? If so, what is her relationship to the gators? Are
they her sacred creatures? Does she also embody a deathwish? What is the
relationship between "the code" (and how deep it runs) and "the contract"
and its potential reversibility? Should I go ask Nim Chimsky? Watson &
Crick? Richard Dawkins?
-If Fina is The Goddess, is she really a Virgin prior to the gang bang, or
just in Benny's mind? Does she, in fact (historically, if you wish), get
banged by the gang, or is it all staged to make Benny think so?
-Are The Playboys actually capable of banging anyone, or is this just some
sort of linguistic mating, the p-boys being merely a token gang?
-Should Benny feel guilty for not accepting job-aid from Fina, rejecting her
physically, and, presumably, pushing her into mating with her "children,"
The Playboys? Does he feel guilty? Has it been Benny'ys job all along to
finish off Fina? Was that his destiny, to end the reign of The Life Goddess
and issue in the new masculine hierarchy?
-If the myth of The Goddess is not a *genuine* myth, i.e., something spun
out of anthropological wishfulfilment and the 20-20 hindsight of the
nineteenth century, well after the end of irreversible Dreamtime, does that
make it a myth of a myth? a "second order" myth in an attempt to "correct"
certain psycho-social-cultural deficits perceived by a self-aware, and
rapidly becoming, self-defining, elite? If so, is reading V. a third order
embodiment?
-Does Fina live, or is she just the image of a boxtop?
Thanks.
jody
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