Thursday, December 25, 2008

body of lies

i enjoyed body of lies.  leonardo dicaprio.  etc.  a cia agent willing to kill, willing to do anything for america.  terrorism.  iraq, and other places in the middle east.  i guess i would prefer, thus far, to communicate about the film using sentence fragments rather than complete sentences (noun plus verb.)  my brother once told me if i keep a notebook, i should always use complete sentences, because i had a bad habit of communicating using only phrases and individual words.  anyway, body of lies is a harrowing film----  terrorists are willing to torture to death, to do anything, to further their agenda and serve their terrorist god, the god of terrorism.  but is the answer more control by those who have money?  is control the answer to the murderous machine of terrorism?  no, we say in america that we have freedom.  we say that the terrorists hate us because of our freedom.  our freedom has led us to wealth.  wealth makes us want to keep our wealth, and this is the control structure that we have.  and meanwhile there are people, for example, who are forcibly drugged or forcibly electroshocked, as in psychiatry.  i am patriotic, as much as anyone else, but i am not in favor of this system of control that apparently exists.  the alternative is money, lawyers, the court system.  have your day in court.  one game replaces the other, in system, a network of societal games.  nietzsche said everything boils down to the will to power.  yes, i am patriotic and i believe in America.  but when people's rights are being violated, don't count on me to keep quiet about it.  a trillion dollars here and there to help the economy, and we can't house the homeless?  and in the homeless shelters, notice that many homeless people are forced to take psychiatric drugs, as if that's anything more than a need for money of the big drug companies and the influence they have and the expanded profitability they want to have, in enslaving the most helpless among us to these horrible drugs.  so i believe in america, but a violent movie of killing for democracy doesn't hold my interest as much as a Quaker book about non-violent ways of living.

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