Originally posted by Crakeur
Souljah, do you have any the comparison between suicide bombing at a funeral (or mosque or military convoy handing out food to children) and the precision bombings?
You know whats the Problem?
That the Majority of the People of the West are not exactly Living in a Real World as it is. We (in the West) have actually NO IDEA what really goes on in Iraq. Those are only our Opinions, based upon the News and Information that we received through the Media we have aceess to, and which have also acess AND INFLUENCE on us.
And America has Constructed within 50 years an Immense and Powerful Hyperreality - which is in Definition,
A world that is more 'Real' than Real, and where those inhabiting it are obsessed with timelessness, perfection, and objectification of the self.
Jean Baudrillard
Furthermore, authenticity has been replaced by copy (thus reality is replaced by a substitute), and nothing is "real," though those engaged in the illusion are incapable of seeing it. Instead of having experiences, people observe Spectacles, via real or metaphorical control screens. Instead of the real, we have Simulation and Simulacra.
America was engaged in an illusion that it was fighting, much as the mind engages with a video game, where the experience tricks the consciousness into believing it is an active participant in something that is not happening.
One could imagine, with relation to this claim, that the American soldier often fought solely within the system of military technology, to the degree that the war's "culture imprint" remains that of friendly fire created by faulty machinery, and a lack of actual face-to-face combat.
So, whats really going on here?
Young American Men and Women on the Ground of Iraq, fighting their Phantom Terrorists in a Desert Land far away from Home. And that is the Solution - to Bomb a House with Suspected Terrorists. That is the Video Game Solution to the Problem. To solve it Via a Command Screen, if you know what I Mean. To surround the House with Heavy Equipment and Marines and then Drop a 1000-pound bomb straight from the Sky, ofcourse filled with Depleted Uranium for better Penetration and Demolition Effects.
Who is Playing a Game and who is Living "Desert of the Real"?
One of these two events, which you used to ask me a Question, was actually a Advertisment for a Military Corporation - the other one, was an Outcry of a Society Engulfed in Civil War.
The video screen-mediated concept of the precision strike became an advertisement for American technological dominance, which makes it possible to view the war as, in part, an advertisement for military hardware.
Can you Spot the Difference?
