On Fri, 21 Jul 1995, Donovan White wrote:

> > Certainly, you 
> > understand well that the ethical system a society accepts as necessary is 
> > contingent on folks like yourself who shape the institutions that shape 
> > public opinion.  
> 
> I always knew I was the arbiter of good taste, but I had no idea I 
> was a modern-day Moses. Actually, I'd have to disagree with 
> everything you say here, and note that if I have an ethical system, 
> it is probably widely at variance with the one accepted as necessary 
> by society or with anything shaped by institutions that purport to shape public opinion. 

  A refreshing bit of truth, what the man says, consistent with what the
system does, is simply reject any ethical responsibility with a glib throw
away because taking a free ride on society to satisfy the old self
interest is the rule of this game. 

> 
> >It's clever for you to say, "Nope...no ethical issues at 
> > all...next question!"  
> 
> Thank you. I do strive for the well-turned phrase.

  Oh, the well-turned phrase masks all the pathological maniacs at work 
who think that the bloody murder they have set loose on the land is 
someone else's problem.  Next question .. 

> 
> >If you are powerful enough, you can get away with 
> > it, too!
>  
> I try, also, to get away with as much as possible, though not so much 
> these days as I used to.

  It is prudent to be careful these days.

> 
> > But, I submit, the role of political media in publishing opinion that 
> > shapes public opinion in regard to the democratic process is exactly what 
> > the citizenry, in it's anger with the political process, is questioning.  I 
> > submit that the combination of this anger and the capacities of the new 
> > technology put in doubt the power of gentlemen like yourself to impose a 
> > contingent ethical (?) construction on the rest of society.  
> 
> I suggest that the angry citizenry's efforts would be most profitably
> exercised if directed toward removing the politicians and the
> political systems that inspired their emotion, rather than wasting
> time and energy on publishing models.

  This is an the set propaganda piece, the mask of masks.  The only hope
for survival of the rigged and lopsided political leadership of this
society is the media that says the precondition for America is its
destruction of the sustaining ideas of America.  This is the thesis that
says a dictatorship of strategically placed persons over the decision
making process for the future, based on raw power, in the name of a rule
by the people is the way of democracy.  If this BIG LIE were to be
unmasked, the system would implode within the next sixty seconds, along
with the smug journalism that gives its inner corruption life. 

 Politics is power and as Waco,
> Tieneman Square, Chiquita Banana, Saddam Hussein, the Bosnian Serbs,
> and Chairman Mao said so well, "All power comes from the barrel of a
> gun."

  Now we are getting to the real thesis, not of foreign potentates and odd 
characters but of this sweet land of liberty, which the propaganda artist 
packages in different vessels.

 
> 
> > 
> > At least, these issues ought to be re-opened for hot debate, rather then 
> > glibly passed over, which is what you seem inclined to want to do.  
> > 
> 
> Hot debate of trivialities reduces to hot air, I'm afraid.

  Not, however, if the people start to see through the cultural trance.  
These trivialities are, indeed, where the focus of a free people must be 
placed, or at least of those who wish to be free.

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS 

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