Thursday, November 08, 2007

When you take the "offical" definition of terrorists... as in the American definition, you have to see that they themselves, those in power, those in office are actually that which they define... and how are they any different? How do they justify the means when the end only has brought about a constant build up? Maybe somewhere along the line, those officals must confront that it is they themselves who they need to fight against.

Also, a substantial amount of resources are put into inculcating a culture which accepts the wrongs of the state, and condemns the wrongs of others. Knowledge and truth simply belong to those with the power to impress their version of truth on to others. Resistance needs to come from a break down of the cultural consensus, which engenders some critical thinking, we hope it extends more within the US!

The cultural consensus is propigated by the US owned media, world wide...this in turn validates in however small way, the actions of politicians which most "normal" people would not take at face value, as most of us have an instinctive suspicion of those in power. The problem is how do you take away the cultural consensus when the mainstream media is a propaganda machine?

Essentially what we're doing right now is facilitating some form of discussion outside of the prism. I happen to think more people simply want to know more than what they're told in 30 second snippets on the evening news, and in the information age its possible. I'm vaguely optimistic!

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