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=> Re: Tariq Ali: What we can learn from Terrorists
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Marcello
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- Saturday, November 12 2011, 19:10:12 (UTC) from 71.107.57.119 - pool-71-107-57-119.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net  Network -  Windows XP -  Internet ExplorerWebsite: http://us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=1&.rand Website title: Redirect |
"Manufacturers try to create a need and then fill it...we know that from advertising...for years writers and social commentators have told us this, have told us that commerce is not about just filling our needs but creating those needs...and that means creating fear for which they can manufacture a solution...even as they manufacture the problem. We have created Terrorists as marketing tool...they are the "problem" and solving this problem becomes the "need"....the product that will satisfy this need, solve this problem, is war...especially robots and drones because then our "heroes" won;t have to risk anything....the guy pushing the button will be transformed into a hero for the modern age." - That's a profound point. What you're saying was covered by Freud, well, his nephew, Edwrad Bernays - the father of public relations and modern propaganda- who ran with his uncle's ideas and used his discoveries for nefarious means on the masses. The "second nature" of man was also the basis of Herbert Marcuse' book, "One-Dimensional Man", and was also dicussed in his "Essay on Liberation". I hope that with your gifted writing skills you would write us a fine essay and perhaps send it in for publication. You're the only one whose making this point, and you argue it pretty well. You know I read most of the well known left publications daily, and if the business of war is ever mentioned, it's in the vain that Ali presented it: in one sentence. With the Pentagon budget being as much as it is, a good detective would investigate the reasons behind it: war profiteering. --------------------- |
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