From:
slider@anashram.com
i think someone is controlling
the flow of news from that region.
### - lol ya think?? (too right it's controlled!)
who
could it be? which fat cat controls the
media?
### - dunno what's it's called across the pond, but here when they don't
want ya's to know about something going on, government can slap what's
called a 'D' notice on it and no one's allowed to print it or even talk
about it in the media!
added to which, there's always an element of bias when it comes to
reporting the news in favour of home-support anyway? - e.g., we're always
the good guys and the enemy = hitler, or is evil or a terrorist and/or
anything very emotive along those lines; like ya never cheer for the
opposing team? (think they call that treason or summat lol...)
if we shoot down 10 of their planes we report 25 were shot down!
if they shoot down 100 of ours we report only 4
etc etc etc...
and then to top it all, the victors write the history of whatever happened
+ how etc??
thus the red indians were savages! (not a lot ya can do with savages, huh, except exterminate 'em that is heh... and everyone back home agrees 'coz
they wuz savages who raped white women and stuff! and 'coz that's wot is
said in the paper and on the news! fucking savages! kill 'em! yeaaa!)
and which of course extends into other areas too they don't really want
peeps to go too much into: thus science is implicitly BETTER than
literature!? why? 'coz ya prolly wont earn much being a poet so it's not encouraged! to the point, for example, that literature & art are actually considered to be second class degrees!?! (when actually the reverse is
more likely true!)
i.e., from the strictly 'human' pov ya might learn more about life, the universe & everything from literature & history than from science;
literature & history will make a good 'human' of you, but then that's not really to be encouraged because people like that might one day
denounce/decry the way things are all set up for everyone to be scientists
& engineers rather than... decent human beings :)
and there prolly isn't any area in wallyworld life this crap doesn't touch/influence!
"We still live in a fucked up world!" --paraphrased bush senior heh :D
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