On 25 Jun 2014, at 15:47, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Telmo Menezes
<te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote:
In terms of ideological nutjobs, I suspect that the solution is
counter-intuitive. Instead of fighting them, perhaps it's better to
not react to them at all. Treat a skinhead like a perfectly normal
person and the skinhead is destroyed. The feeling of persecution is
exploited in recruiting people to these organisations.
This I have been barking at for years. The same way we don't point
the camera at some flasher at sporting event or World Cup and don't
put them up on big screen. I find the extra attention that savage,
ideological acts of violence receive totally counterproductive. They
should face trial like any mass murderers and the propaganda thirst
of the west has to be quenched elsewhere.
Elevating obscure groups/individuals to global publicity status for
this is idiotic, inspires misguided followers, empowers right wing
hawk types and the interests they represent everywhere: extremist,
weapons industry and its black market, both right and left political
side, prohibition tendencies, and abuse of authoritative argument
all benefit from this mutually beneficial publicity system.
I agree a lot with you and Telmo. Especially for terrorists. An expert
on terrorism (a cousin of mine) told me that to fight terrorism, the
key is discretion, and that the media should put the terrorist news in
the "fait divers" (local incidental news).
The expression "war on terror" is already suspicious in that regard.
Terrorists can only applaud. What an advertizing on their cause and
methods.
if we can only keep ourselves secure by agreeing to do each others'
dirty laundry, bypassing other sovereign nations' laws, so they may
bypass our own, then I don't see why this isn't perceived as
dangerous and cynical; and because of legal complexity times digital
age, even counterproductive to security on all levels of democratic
model (multiplying hacker warfare etc).
I think the illusion that has to be broken is very much related to
patriotism.
Culture not only as the bringer of progress, but also collective
jailor. But as long as we get to watch drama of some ball being
kicked around, who cares?
Patriotism is even good. It can protect you from nazis sometime. But
the fact that humans needs to belong to some group to forge his
identity can be a problem for the fundamental inquiry, and very often,
a problem for the overall political sanity.
Soccer cup? That's the modern "panem and circenses". bread and game.
Why not. it is certainly better than war and blood, but it can often
be a way to distract people from some issues. Panem (bread) is good,
of course.
Tomorrow Germany plays US to prove that they're good at kicking a
ball around;
Go Germany! Go US! Let us hope the best is the winner!
if they can't safeguard their democracy from getting legal system
undermined and US intimidation, then at least they get to penetrate
a fishing net with a spherical piece of cow skin, or its space age
replacement nowadays, I guess...
Merkel, Obama, Hollande, etc. have more allegiance to each other
than to their citizens. It's naive to assume that Merkel is German
of Obama is American. They are world leaders and belong to the cast
of the world leaders. They feed on patriotism to act against their
people. In a globalised western world, patriotism is the old
strategy of "divide and conquer".
I can't resist sharing what my favourite comedian (American, btw)
has to say about nationalism and hating immigrants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPDT5qHtZ4
He has an indoor smoking permit?
In many places, smoking on stage is allowed if part of an artistic
performance.
I know. I need more clout in local bars. People have done all kinds
of disgusting things on stage, like cut themselves and what not...
my inability to do so (uhm smoke, not cut...) reflects my bad/needy/
overly polite PR strategy. You've got to have some things to look
forward to in life, I suppose. To infinitely higher standards and
beyond, lol. ;-) PGC
The people needs witches to hunt. May be we need more soccer cup!
Bruno
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