Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,sci.physics Subject: Re: Acts of political violence are often designed to be witnessed. Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:08:04 -0700 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <65299594.3981@ix.netcom.com> References: <6524F634.7C7F@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="3159035"; posting-host="nLYg9UBeoMWa070gP9wQcw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; Cancel-Lock: sha256:tkG7i8JuDJJsGyQx5Me4xVlt0wRFeU9X3J5mF3VP/Qo= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 231012-4, 10/12/2023), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:2704747 sci.physics:881793 The Starmaker wrote: > > "Acts of political violence are often designed to be witnessed. > Executions, massacres, rapes, and lynchings are frequently performed in > front of audiences or carried out in ways that leave traces for all to > see. And even when such acts are ostensibly concealed, they are > sometimes covered up so neglectfully that one is left to wonder whether the > discovery isn’t part of the perpetrators’ strategy. Such formations of > violence produce political effects in part through their theatricality. > Staged violence elicits a range of affective responses from audiences, > including fear, shock, and horror but also pleasure." There is two sides to every coin... https://www.wsj.com/video/series/on-the-news/we-dont-know-where-to-go-gazans-on-israels-evacuation-demand/249F58A8-E8CD-4099-B927-B8356404BBDB which side of the coin are they showing you? -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.