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On Getting Sucked In & Spitting Out

 
 
Unravelling
11:19 / 18.03.03
When this thing started I felt a lot more 'in control'.
In the immediate aftermath of 911, I was able to keep my mind on course by avoiding the media. Typical conversation of the time;

questioner:'What do you think the US President should do about Afghanistan?'

me:'There is No the President of the United States of America, there is No Afghanistan.'

I switched off the news aggresively. I don't feel as though I have a subconscious, but experience dictates that I do. So I know the only way to stop it becoming infested with the subtexts of advertising is to mute & turn away from tv adverts. So the same applies to the media feed, even the Channel 4 News, Guardian etc.

The media blitz which started on 10/11 - which twisted 'Asylum Seeker' into a new buzzword for race hate; which attempts to polarise opinion, preferably all to the same pole; which pumped the same message with different spin on every channel; This forms a concerted psychic attack.

The aim is to set the agenda. No matter which side of the fence you come down, it's George & Tony's fence. Only game in town, now. My immunity has rubbed off; Anti-War demos are part and parcel of being sucked into the whole thing. The 'War is Hell' T-shirts I printed up for friends &&, are a fashion accessory, whether I like it or not. I have been Sucked In proper.

My plan is to ball up all the internalised propaganda and vomit it out into a really vicious documentary, then deliberately stop talking about War, or the George & Tony show, for EVER. But then ... taking such an aggressive, all-or-nothing mental stance, after being subject to aggressivising propaganda - No, surely not ? But of course!

Unravelling spends its spare time working on the plans for a revolutionary new type of gun that shoots bullets of pure Love, with optional 'under & over' launcher for 40mm grenades of Light & Hope.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
11:31 / 18.03.03
Sapphire bullets?
 
 
Jub
13:26 / 18.03.03
you missed the word "Bogus" out, before "asylum seekers".
shame on you.
 
 
Icicle
13:35 / 18.03.03
My immunity has rubbed off; Anti-War demos are part and parcel of being sucked into the whole thing.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this thread but are you trying to say that you are ignoring the media because it effects your judgement? Ok we're all in danger of being 'sucked in' by the media, it's manipulative of course but it's no solution to just ignore everything, we have to get information about events from somewhere we just need to look at it very, very critically. You can stop talking about the war because you're in the safe position of having a choice, some people (i.e the citizens of bagdad) are not so fortunate and it's for their interests that we should try to be informed.
 
  
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