18-09-2009, 07:53 AM
Jan
A load of good points again. Some giving real pause for thought - especially the Kubrick ones, so thanks for that.
I am inclined to become a bit one-dimensional when it comes to anything remotely connected with propagandising the US/UK and general Western World view and I admit it results in blind spots. My use of the term 'Hollywood' and your observations/definition of it are a case in point.
I am also acutely aware that many of my posts could be viewed as virulently anti-American, whereas that is NOT my intent. Not in the default patriotic sense of a population's loyalties and 'need to belong' so movingly illustrated in the Deer Hunter anyway. It is the Machiavellian agendas and purposes to which such 'patriotism' are harnessed by the State that I am 'Anti' - and pretty much uncompromisingly so - with the US State being at the pinnacle of those agendas and purposes (ably - or not so ably - aided and abetted by the British State and others).
I think I've said this before but no harm repeating: Some of the very best information and criticism of the things I am 'Anti' comes from US citizens and US sites, so America actually leads there too - bit of a paradox isn't it?
A load of good points again. Some giving real pause for thought - especially the Kubrick ones, so thanks for that.
I am inclined to become a bit one-dimensional when it comes to anything remotely connected with propagandising the US/UK and general Western World view and I admit it results in blind spots. My use of the term 'Hollywood' and your observations/definition of it are a case in point.
I am also acutely aware that many of my posts could be viewed as virulently anti-American, whereas that is NOT my intent. Not in the default patriotic sense of a population's loyalties and 'need to belong' so movingly illustrated in the Deer Hunter anyway. It is the Machiavellian agendas and purposes to which such 'patriotism' are harnessed by the State that I am 'Anti' - and pretty much uncompromisingly so - with the US State being at the pinnacle of those agendas and purposes (ably - or not so ably - aided and abetted by the British State and others).
I think I've said this before but no harm repeating: Some of the very best information and criticism of the things I am 'Anti' comes from US citizens and US sites, so America actually leads there too - bit of a paradox isn't it?
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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