mckinlay writes
>fascinating...
>
>I want to know more about these stories of impoverishment...
it's tragic, really, that folks have to search and hunt and peck through
the streams of propoganda
in order to find out what goes on beneath the radar of popular media. i'm
pretty sure any one of use could
hop a bus 5 miles in any direction to find stories of impoverishment and
desperation...
:-\
this is not against you, dear, but is, in general, an expression of
frustration... and an echo to
the Chiapas fiasco years ago, when rebel terrorists succeeded in using
word-of-mouth on the internet
to garner global support for a particular kind of genocide.
in the contexts of wars and violence sponsored by ideological
rationalization, what is worse than not knowing about what's going on
is the seduction of picking sides based on
particular media perspectives.
quite frankly, when push comes to shove, i give money to homeless people
because i can see where they are,
and i simply don't know how to trust the media anymore.
:(
another cyncial aside
from MEH.
diane
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"As he half dozed the thought struck him of what it might be like to
record the reality of things,
matched with the thoughts and impressions it brought forth.
To find the edge on which the interior met the exterior space...
If he could keep some sense of how things really were,
he might retain a little of it over time.
The past was always disguising itself, disappearing into the needs
of the moment. Whatever happened got replaced by the
official story or competing fictions."
Robert Stone
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, pointe claire, qc, H9R 3Z2
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