The thing about this stuff is it’s hard to trust that it isn’t an elaborate scheme to plug Richard Clarke’s book…
Interesting though to hear Clinton articulate simply the campaign of fear the neo-conservatives wage on the people of the U.S. and the world. Strange that Bill wasn’t more vocal about that when the administration deceived the people about why it needed to go to war with Iraq. Better late than never. I try to remember that it is all a show. Keep people distracted by this issue or that, remove the people from their present, their presence.
It is clear television, in general, does more damage than good. "It’s an educational tool," you say. Well, so is living in the world, walking in the forest, raising a family, reading. Television is "essentially a commercial device disseminating a gospel of consumerism marked, not as in the past by the charm of convenience and comfort, not by any emancipation from labor or by the glamor of luxury or status, but by the imputation of exclusion– the new television was a window that with start florescent indistinctness placed everyone on the outside of American life, looking in."
[from When We Were Good (the Folk Revival) by Robert Cantwell] I wake up and don’t watch the stars fade in the dawn, but at this computer screen. Thank god for the people who are keeping their connection with the earth. Sometimes it seems like all humanity and our creations are neuroses. Mist is rising from the pond. It is the color of fallen pine needles.
The next part of the interview has some intersting stuff:
Comments on this entry are closed.