Saturday, March 17, 2012
It never stops.
BBC runs a serious and troubling piece on the use of music as interrogation and torture.
My first thought: We should be worrying instead that so much of our popular "music" is so perfectly suited for torture.
What's happening to the youngsters who listen to it voluntarily and constantly, with permanently attached earphones? Of course we already know. They become riotous idiots.
But that's not really the main point.
As usual, the Experts are furrowing their brows about MEANS when they should be worrying about ENDS.
If we forbid the MEANS, if we forbid effective torture and interrogation, we will be helpless against real enemies.
We should be focusing on the GOAL question: Are these enemies real? Is this whole war real? Or is it an intentional misdirection?
And the BBC utterly fails there. While they're furrowing about musical torture, they're enthusiastically pushing for MORE WAR! MORE WAR! MORE WAR! ATTACK LIBYA! ATTACK SYRIA! ATTACK PERSIA!
In other words, the worry about MEANS is itself a misdirection to prevent us from thinking about the main misdirection.
It never stops. ¶ 4:27 AM
My first thought: We should be worrying instead that so much of our popular "music" is so perfectly suited for torture.
What's happening to the youngsters who listen to it voluntarily and constantly, with permanently attached earphones? Of course we already know. They become riotous idiots.
But that's not really the main point.
As usual, the Experts are furrowing their brows about MEANS when they should be worrying about ENDS.
If we forbid the MEANS, if we forbid effective torture and interrogation, we will be helpless against real enemies.
We should be focusing on the GOAL question: Are these enemies real? Is this whole war real? Or is it an intentional misdirection?
And the BBC utterly fails there. While they're furrowing about musical torture, they're enthusiastically pushing for MORE WAR! MORE WAR! MORE WAR! ATTACK LIBYA! ATTACK SYRIA! ATTACK PERSIA!
In other words, the worry about MEANS is itself a misdirection to prevent us from thinking about the main misdirection.
It never stops. ¶ 4:27 AM
