June 22, 2006
What's in a Shadow
Check this out. On 9/10/01 Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon couldn't find 2.3 trillion dollars. It cannot be accounted for.
Factoid: Bad news out of the Bush Administration is ALWAYS delivered on Friday, where it can float away into oblivion while the nation watches sports. 9/10/01 was a Monday, the day before you know what. Quite the distraction. Fabulosa timing.
As one commenter said about the Bushies, "They shout their lies outloud and whisper the truth if they have to, much later on..."
Your assignment, should you chose to accept it, will be to read all the comments in the clickie (even I haven't done that), and then watch a movie entitled "The Power of Nightmares". If you don't have an hour or so to do that right now, here's the precis:
"This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. From the introduction to Part 1:
Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure. These two groups have changed the world, but not in the way that either intended. Together, they created today’s nightmare vision of a secret, organized evil that threatens the world. A fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. And those with the darkest fears became the most powerful. " The Power of Nightmares, Baby It's Cold Outside."
Or, if you're like me, you'll just look at the picture and extrapolate --you'll probably feel better afterwards.
Photo note: Whaddya know, a metaphorophoto. It's not exactly black and white, there's light and shadow, reflections, reflections of shadows, projections, reality, illusion, transparency, opacity, vegetable, mineral
and it's damn hard to tell what's really going on. Shot in Al Pesso's new digs.