the postmodern condition

[pynchonoid]

[...] Who knew that what we had was an administration
of -- as Jonathan Schell puts it below --
lexicographers, grammarians, and philologists, intent
on parsing sentences, slicing meanings, arguing over
the exact definitions of words, the exact point, for
instance, where torture becomes torture, and whether
in finding that point they hadn't stopped just short
of, or gone just beyond but quickly rescinded, or
recommended but never used, or used but only once, or
maybe twice, and real far away, and not as hard as…

Yesterday, the President stated unequivocally: "Let me
make very clear the position of my government and our
country: We do not condone torture. I have never
ordered torture. I will never order torture. The
values of this country are such that torture is not a
part of our soul and our being." But as we've learned
in recent weeks, "torture" is an all too malleable
term, and what is never being ordered is all in the
definition. [...]

...read it all:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=1512


> > [...] It's all so beautifully postmodern: all of
> the
> > Bushies' lies are true. Technically. [...]
> >
> > http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0623-09.htm
> >


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