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January 6, 2007
by Daithí Mac Lochlainn
I had hoped to avoid it. Indeed, there was a good chance that I would.
I haven't a television in my home. It's little more than the devil's icon. Anyway, I don't need TV "personalities" to tell me what to think and what is funny; and those creepy pharmaceutical advertisments unfailingly leave me aghast.
While I do often take advantage of online video clips, I decided against watching the latest necrophilic pornography coming from Baghdad.
However, I failed to escape being caught in the crossfire of this latest intensified psychological warfare.
Yesterday afternoon, I was peddling a stationary bicycle at my gym. As always, the ceiling-mounted televisions were flickering.
Years ago, I would watch quite a number of decent movies, while distracting myself from the tired pain in my muscles.
This seems to have changed ever since "the day that changed everything", as movie plots have given way to endless "news" reports about terrorist threats and far distant wars. (George Orwell, anyone?)
So there I was, struggling to shed these excess pounds, and lo and behold, there appeared the video of the greatest act of witness tampering in world history, invading my senses, courtesy of CNN.
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Empires invariable crash under their own weight.
Our own Empire, like Rome, was originally founded as a Republic.
Unlike Rome, the American Imperium rose rapidly, at lightning speed of its own technology.
It seems that it is now falling just as rapidly, again with the latest "advances" of technology.
As Robert Fisk said, the United States created and then destroyed a dictator.
By making it a form of video entertainment, our rulers have destroyed any claim to a civilized culture, along with any credible pretense of their own humanity.
One wonders how many times the Bushling hit the "replay" button on his remote control.
One also asks whether we ever dare to hope given that the upcoming Speaker of the House has so arrogantly declared that implementing the Constitution, the highest law of the land, is "off the table".
At least, in ancient Rome, these nightmarish scenes were avoidable, as one had to go out of his way to witness Imperial spectacles. The new Imperium won't allow even that.
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Daithí Mac Lochlainn [send him email] is a researcher, journalist, conceptual artist, community activist and shameless agitator. Find all of his writings at http://gaelicstarover.blogspot.com/
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