Bullfucking shit there's some shit like that happening right now all on it's own. The government sent out agents who had the swine flu strain on them to Mexico first. Once there, they started infecting people (possibly people viewed as "persons of interest" by the gov.) with the dreaded flu. Then, it was off to the USA again to do it again. Now it was time then to plant more stories in the news about. it Now, it's the biggest thing going on the news and in the papers. But what about the recession, something that was affecting us severely our ability to support ourselves about a week ago? Taking a hike to the back of the paper, near the Jumble and Ziggy, that's fucking where!! Think about it people- we get worried about the swine flu (that they started), we forget about what we were worried about before it, while our defenses are down, they do whatever they want regarding the previous big worry, sooner or later we come back to our senses and when we start thinking "Hey, whatever happened to that recession? " And at that exact moment, that's when they got their way, man , because we had already forgot about it to begin with because of the swine flu, man. We were too busy protecting ourselves from or thinking we already had the swine flu to see what they were doing. They could have been letting Bernie Madoff out of jail for all we know! Geez!
So, take the surgical mask off your mouth and the blinders off your eyes while you're at it, too, dumbass..because that's whats really going on.
OK, there, Andy....Your heart and your head are in the right place, but (I hate to break it) your connection between the two is too linear.
ReplyDeleteThe permanent government (yours and mine...well, yours) can always find an even spontaneous, non-manipulated event to supplant--and a compliant media to hype--the real issues that are, or should be, occupying a nation's consciousness.
Actually infecting agents to spread a virulent flu--abroad, yet--is almost as much work as maipulating twenty "terrorists" to fly aeroplanes into iconic buildings!
This does not mean that the govt. did not play some role in either event. But, like government bureaucracies everywhere, their aim is passive complicity, rather than active control or participation.
And the media, which takes its clearly signaled but covertly communicated cues from this govt. plays its role as the...well... medium through which these events come to claim a disproportionate share of public attention...Or, in the case of 9/11, as the formulators of a narrative which will further the govt.'s aims, regardless of the actual nature or reasons for unfolding events.
But, as I say, you are on to something, man...Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn are good paths to follow here!
Keep up the good work!