I know this is not exactly the future of work,
except for the Iraqis and our military, but
I just started watching the DVD I just bought
of Werner Herzog's documentary film of the
aftermath of the First Gulf War: _Lessons of Darkness_ (which
I saw once on Public Television several years ago...), and....

(1) Has anybody been struck by the resemblance between
the two strange towers with spherical growths on them
in Kuwait City, and similar looking structures in Hieronymous Bosch's
_Garden of Earthly Delights_?

(2) The images of American night bombing of Baghdad on CNN

   
http://asia.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/unfinished/war/nightvision.jpg

show so clearly how true seeing in our time is in "false color"
generated by electronic image enhancing devices -- images which
nobody could see with their natural eyes.

Perhaps the Gulf War was *the* right subject for Werner
Herzog to film, since it is well-known that in his
determination to get the film right he will not hesitate
to sacrifice persons (they really die in the "shooting"),
and, curiously, a documentary of the aftermath of The Gulf War is 
one topic where Herzog did not have to place any person at more
risk than they already were apart from his filming them....

But the Werner Herzog film that probably most applies to
Dubya is _Aguirre: The Wrath of God_, alas....

\brad mccormick 

-- 
  Let your light so shine before men, 
              that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)

  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)

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