Zizek re September 11

[Joe Allonby]

It's all about controlling the public mythology.

Repeat after me "The media is biased to the left. The media is biased to the
left. The media is biased to the left."

Say it enough and it will be accepted as true. Any attempt to refute it will
be seen as evidence of its truth. Any honest reporting will be labelled as
part of the bias. Cheerleading will be seen as fair and balanced. Any
criticism of the regime is aid and comfort to the enemy. The enemy is the
moral equivalent of Hitler. Stopping the moral equivalent of Hitler (MEH)
is imperative to preserve freedom.  To save freedom you must give up the
rights that the MEH hates and wants to destroy. Suggesting that more
gasoline should not be thrown on the fire is "cutting and running".

On 9/20/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Am I really in the minority? Or is it really true
> > that the people who
> > control the media and goverments (increasingly
> > indistinguishable) see only
> > people like themselves? How many children of
> > Congressmen are in Iraq or
> > Afghanistan? How many anchormen's sons are carrying
> > M-16s?
>
> That's the problem, even worse now than during Vietnam
> when I got drafted.
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> >Maybe my
> > familiarity with the war is a result of my living in
> > a blue-collar immigrant
> > urban neighborhood, but as I said, what about
> > Vermont? Vermont has the
> > highest per capita casualty rate of any state in the
> > Union. That's probably
> > a factor of unemployment in a rural dairy farming
> > state. What about Camden
> > NJ? Or Gary Indiana? Gainesville Florida? Santa Rosa
> > New Mexico? Do people
> > know about the war there? Damned right they do.
> > They're the poor bastards
> > fighting it.
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>
> And it's a crying shame they feel like they have no
> choice but to do it, even as many of them understand
> that what they are doing is wrong.  Even more terrible
> that the rest of the US population stands by and lets
> the government keep it up.
>
> US may not be "fascist" per se, whatever that means,
> but there's a level of control over the population
> that I haven't seen anywhere else outside China (where
> I have lived and traveled extensively, and I speak
> fluent Chinese). Bush & Co have people mesmerized,
> imo, the way their war criminal predecessors have for
> decades; similar siutation in other countries, of
> course, cf. Gravity's Rainbow re the nature of
> control.
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