Friday, April 14, 2017

The Society of the Spectacle


"The US, with Britain in tepid accord, has been bombing unstable Muslim states for 16 years and has delivered nothing but death and anarchy."

--Simon Jenkins, The Guardian.

One might call this "gesture bombing" if it wasn't so obscene. If this is what civilisation really amounts to then I think Zerzan's point is only reinforced.

“There is no doubt that Isis are brutal and that they have committed atrocities against our people. But I don’t see why the bomb was dropped,” said the mayor of Achin, Naweed Shinwari.

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“If there was any honor in fighting, a dog should lead us, because who fights better than a dog,” said the father of Mashal Khan (who was lynched by a mob of 400 people for alleged blasphemous remarks). 

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