Brad, get used to it. Obscenity is the name of the game, though no one who
uses it or benefits from it would call it that.
If you want to get power out of a river, you dam it up. This is, I propose (basing myself on my reading of Freud...), the "message" of societies' repressive manipulation of sexual energy.
> However, it does make one
wonder where the world is going and how fast it will get there. Rich and
powerful countries behaving like rogue states (though calling others that)
terrorize and destroy poor ones on trumped up grounds of harbouring terror
and possessing weapons of mass destruction.
Yes. If George W Bush really wanted to find "dirty bombs", he'd have to look no further than the final resting coordinates of U.S. military DU (depleted uranium) shells, which are all over the place in Iraq and other places we've been in the past decade or so.
I read that Army physicians (spokespersona) say an Iraqi child would have to eat a bucket of DU dirt to get sick; the U.S. troops (grunts) discourage press reporters from poking around where the spent DU shells are. Take your choice.
> People in positions of trust
and power with large corporations cheat and steal from those who trust them.
Even that icon of pathological perfection, Martha Stewart, is suspect of
being villanous.
Whether or not K-Mart-ha proves to have broken the law, she apparently is not a gracious person. Someone I know described the behind the scenes of a Thanksgiving TV turkey prep show, and it was not festive. But I'm not sure Martha Stewart is quite up to the Leona Helmsley level. I once heard that Leona deigned to give her personal secretary the opportunity to purchase a ticket to her [Leona's] New Year's party.
> And now the huge media conglomerates whose role is to
persuade us to buy and consume while pretending to entertain us have acquired even more power to do these things by taking public officials to bed with them. See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/05/opinion/05HERB.html?th
Compared with everyone else, Madonna is the least offensive pretender. At least she is open about what she is pretending to be.
I have no particular argument with "Madonna" -- although I think the U.S. Department of State should! If I could, I'd do it too.
Back around 1985, I used to think that Madonna was carrying on the counter-reformation. It seemed to me that Cyndi Lauper was the representative of Protestantism. Clearly this is one theological battle that the Catholics won.
\brad mccormick
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