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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:02:21 -0500
From: Mark Saleski <marks@foliage.com>
Subject: Re: flag-waving
skip wrote:
>I don't know that intellectuals speaking out has ever solved anything --
>were it only that simple.
in this country, intellectuals aren't allowed to speak out unless
they're conservative. everyone else is tarred with the "liberal elite"
label. dissent is certainly shouted down as being un-patriotic. it's a
sad thing.
>Now, those events have been replaced by TV news stories -- little "human
>interest" items" -- about the 90 year old woman with a flag on the antenna
>of her car.
now the whole flag phenomenon...i've never been comfortable with the whole flag-waving-america-love-it-or-leave-it-you-commie-bastard thing. after september 11 tons and tons of american flags showed up on houses in every us location. i even put one up on my house. why? mostly as a tribute lost lives. i have more ambivalent feelings about the war. the pressure here is to get behind the government because, of course, it's doing the right thing? well is it? how the hell would we know? as skip points out, because of corporate ownership of all of the major media outlets, you're getting only part of the story. i became concerned with loss of civilian life over there. there were a few (very few) stories about this over here...much more in europe (at least in the websites is was checking out).
so in my mind the issues are pretty complicated. from looking at the polling numbers, most folks are indeed behind our government's actions. i'm not sure what exactly that means.
oh...i don't own any garth brooks records....but i do have a couple of shania twain cds...
mark
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