© Off-Guardian
Sometimes it takes our bodies to return us to our souls. And our little pains to remind us of the indescribable pain of the savage killing and dismemberment of innocent children and adults in Gaza and many other places by U.S. weapons produced in clean factories by people just doing their jobs and collecting their pay at "defense" contractors Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, etc.
Abstraction is the name of the game as human bodies are torn to pieces "over there" and the obscene profits are transferred at the computer terminals day and night.
Living in a technological world of
the internet divorces us from real life as it passes into inert, abstract, and dead screen existence. It should not be surprising that people grow sick and tired of the steady streams of "news" that fills their days and nights.
So much of the news is grotesque; propaganda abounds. Stories twisted right and left to tie minds into knots. After a while, as Macbeth tells us, life seems like
"a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets its hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."Being sick and out of it for a while allows one a different perspective on the world. This is especially true for those of us who often write about politics and propaganda.
A recent illness has forced me to step away from my usual routine of following political events closely. Fleeting headlines have been all I've noted for the past two weeks. While lying around waiting for the illness to leave, I would drift in and out of reveries and memories that would float to semi-consciousness.
Feeling miserable prevented any focus or logical thinking, but not, I emphasize, thinking in a deeper, physical sense. But it also gave me a reprieve from noting the repetitive and atomizing nature of internet postings, as if one needs to be hammered over the head again and again to understand the world whose realities are much simpler than the endless scribblers and politicians are willing to admit.
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