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