by Carlo Cielo
Judge has ruled that all truth will be fined guilty. Sentence is maximum intolerance for all the plaintiffs. Full gunshot blast through the head. The verdict is final. Objections overruled. No witnesses allowed.
So it goes.
And that is the state of 'truth-telling' nowadays. If you try to do so, you are labelled a terrorist. In the case of Julian Assuage, founder of Wikileaks, you are deemed a pederast. Invectives that carry in them a death sentence, that is ironically a form of rape. And so we get the sleazy, complicit 'media' we have nowadays, living in seems by their all-too-easy manifesto : “ If you cannot tell the truth, might as well make the news.” And the 'news' that they spurn and generate all throughout are the exact type of noise the powers just want, to obfuscate and blur what are otherwise their clear acts of menace. Throwing the whole 'gray area' blurb when they find it especially convenient. A bloated 'media' eager to earn their 'Fourth Estate' cred like a reserved seat on the table.
We have a Big Media today that goes like this, like we have children now that goes like this. Children who want exactly to do whatever the grown-ups say. I just had this conversation with an Anthropology Professor in UP CSSP, and she's complained about how talking to today's kids is like talking to their parents. While I agree with the geist of the conclusions, I do feel it masks a falacious argument that only serves to absolve for example the quasi-'rebels' who practically laid the foundations to their current 'surrender pose' with their Gloria vote in 2004. Moreover, this denies the nature of history as continuity, not as mere affectation or lifestyle. Because, what we're faced with isn't really an entire new breed naturally failing on their accord, so much as a downward trajectory humanity has been taking since it started doing away with social safety nets in the '80 - of simply hurtling into collective disembowelment. History, after all, has been deemed to have ended by the fall of the Berlin Wall, and we're being geared towards sociological Big Crunch. All the apocalyptic hoopla of the '90s should account for this, as well as the continuing apocalypse in this era's more decadent minds, who now live and fester in the subcultures and the academe. Basically, this is what the chief industrialists and players mean when they launched the 'New World Order' worldwide with the rise of the first Bush and the formal aggression in Iraq at the start of the '90s. Before, it's all covert stuff and selling arms to pit nations against each toher. Now, the key plan is to plain wipe out everything for the free market.
This it seems, was why Veronica Guerin had to die.
First, they wage war against Communism and generalized rebellion & dissent. Then, they wage war against art & science and journalism. This kept most people and minds devastated, perhaps, as this growing allergy towards pro-people initiatives makes clear, so they could conveniently be taken out of the picture, and all their planes and landscapes be cleared - in the name of absolute capitalism. Such economic ideology has been taken to such a positivist extreme, disregarding all human factors and side effects, that it's become its own nihilist type of metaphysics in all its termination sequence. It can be said that adherers are simply sticking to its formula, the only promise it has for the world : namely, that all things human and natural be purged, until there is nothing left but 'supply and demand'. Pesky reporters and noisy types had to be eliminated to accommodate the transfer of goods, either in the form of oil, cannabis, or drugs. There will be outcry, and its govts. would try and save face, but amid scores of broken bodies and left traces of the disappeared, is the need to simply reposition the same product in another way. Sometimes, it takes the form of new wars; sometimes, new regimes. The macro-schema remains. It is sold as a finished stasis we are all holed up in. A punctuation mark that closes an axiom. A done deal.
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Apocalypse frightens them, ennit? It really does, and yes, I do find it amusing. Which is why I feel the current impunity we are in is less a fluke of a worthless generation, so much as the fathers of a failed one returning to abandoned patriarchy, and calling on the sons of the new so they could help share in their shameful dearth and regression, & make them feel right about turning away from the march of progress that went right past them during their time. Apparently, there is 'no other sociological alternative'. So these louts of NAFTA, Softcore, and Duty Free, who were at the front row seat to the most awe-striking revolutions, could only grab the young, and tell the young to hold back Embracing as they both approach the fall, finding no shelter in or out of themselves, as they close their eyes and pray.
With this, they can only part us a single advice, as the motorcycle people approach with their guns :
Think fast.
