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Selective Remembering and Forgetting
Which 9/11 Are You Not Forgetting?
For everything there is a season, And a time for every purpose under heaven.
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
— EcclesiastesA time to write short stories, A time to rant truths.
— Hirka
About War in General and Specific
I faced the draft during the Vietnam Invasion and I was among those who were paying close attention. My name was going to be put into the USofA Southeast Asian Death Lottery. I had a stake in this insane military extravaganza playing out on the 10 o’clock news. Every night it was the reading of the US troop death numbers to a nation of television viewers—numbed, fooled, and pacified by the deceptions.
During the time since then I have not dulled my critical thinking regarding this kill-or-be-killed enterprise that exists to keep the coffers of the wealthy full.
Nor have I become susceptible to the narratives with which the eight companies that control television broadcasting continue to inculcate and distract millions of viewers. Not I.
No, the revolution would not be televised. War is a…
