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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (12151)	12/8/2005 6:10:56 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Gus > "You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis. I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road," he said. "Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless it may be but it is also very clever. As a salesman it is out on its own and its most saleable commodity is self-love." He returned to the theme of language as an obscurer of reality, saying that American leaders use it to anesthetize the public. "It's a scintillating stratagem," Pinter said. "Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable." All very true but I think it's more about power -- brute power -- than about hypnosis. And frankly, it also may have something to do with a preference for the devil one knows? Concerning the hypnosis, I've now largely stopped watching American TV and prefer CCTV instead. It takes a while to de-program oneself. english.cctv.com