Pixelated Semantics

User manual for catastrophes

President Bush thinks the Irak adventure is a "catastrophic success"; not only that, amazingly, he says of the War on Terror he initiated "I don't think you can win it". Well, TIME calls him a politician who "reads history books like a user's manual" - the user manual approach probably explains the catastrophe. Perhaps someone should send him "Leadership for Dummies", if Howard and Blair have finished looking for pictures in it to deface.

Meanwhile the Australian Government is attempting to create demons from asylum seekers yet again to prop up their electoral fortunes. A senior Federal Liberal MP has compared the position of asylum seekers to cats and dogs entering the country, "equating asylum seekers to animals, or animals in quarantine". Clearly this perpetuates demonisation and dehumanisation, and given the ethical slipperiness that Man of Steel has standardised, eliminates any doubt the conservative's capacity for compassion and understanding is not diminished, but largely absent.

Electing a Government solely on the basis of economic management is an invitation to such behaviour - like a Fascistic formula, the importance of humanity and the diversity of social culture are diminished proportionally to the emphasis given to securing big business's capital.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 9:56 am ::