Re: Fire the script writer, please

From: Zac Jensen (cybereal_list@sisna.com)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 21:00:26 MST

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    Wait, are you trying to insinuate that this ISN'T FOX's new reality series?

    And I was getting excited about voting for something, and watching the
    'aftermath' series followup.. *sniff*

    Ciao
    -Zac

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de>
    Newsgroups: list.extropians
    To: <extropians@extropy.org>
    Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:17 PM
    Subject: IRAQ: Fire the script writer, please

    > Somebody fire the script writer please. This drama is not playing
    > out the way it should. We were told there would be a war now. Or
    > armed conflict, military intervention, whatever. You know, pretty
    > Top Gun-style pictures of military machinery, explosions, the good
    > stuff from the movies. This was hyped as the TV event of the season,
    > but so far it has been a big letdown. The audience is disappointed.
    > All that anticipation has been build up, but there's no war in
    > sight. Not only has the climax been delayed, it may never happen
    > at all. Lousy script that.
    >
    > In case you lack the proper perspective: For all of us, this war
    > thing is nothing but a TV event. If you consider the global
    > population, in a first order approximation nobody is involved.
    > Certainly we in the First World aren't. I guess some Iraqis will
    > be killed, and Al Jazeera will provide us with some gruesome pictures
    > (part of any good TV show, of course), but these are strange people
    > in faraway places nobody would otherwise care about at all. It
    > will be their ten minutes of fame, they should be thankful for that.
    > Okay, so there will be some US and British soldiers involved. But
    > hey, those are paid professionals who joined the military in order
    > to go to foreign places and kill people there. With some luck,
    > they may be able to do just that.
    >
    > It's only pictures in the tube. Really.
    >
    > --
    > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
    >



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