Stranger than fiction
Jul. 3rd, 2003 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenI've got my alarm set to NPR so that when I wake up the first thing I hear is the headlines of the day.
This morning the latest news was about some country - and you can see how awake I was that I don't even remember which one - that has, according to Bush, some nasty leader in charge of it and by gum said leader who, as we all know, molests more children in a single day than you've had hot dinners in your life, sonny Jim, is the most evil being ever and how, if said leader who is, believe it or not, not located in Iraq, doesn't come clean forthwith well then Bush is going to have no recourse but to go on a "peacekeeping mission" now isn't he?
And all I could think of while I listened to that is - how 1984 is this? A couple of years ago if you put a scene like that into a book or a movie the audience wouldn't believe it. They wouldn't believe in a country where every day when people wake up they get cheerfully told by the morning news that their leader is going to wage war on yet another country that squinted at him funny using the same boilerplate reason each and every damn time and that on top of it all he's going to persist in calling it "peacekeeping" - and people buy it.
Honestly some days I can't help but feel I slipped into one of those alt. dimensions we keep hearing so much about.
This morning the latest news was about some country - and you can see how awake I was that I don't even remember which one - that has, according to Bush, some nasty leader in charge of it and by gum said leader who, as we all know, molests more children in a single day than you've had hot dinners in your life, sonny Jim, is the most evil being ever and how, if said leader who is, believe it or not, not located in Iraq, doesn't come clean forthwith well then Bush is going to have no recourse but to go on a "peacekeeping mission" now isn't he?
And all I could think of while I listened to that is - how 1984 is this? A couple of years ago if you put a scene like that into a book or a movie the audience wouldn't believe it. They wouldn't believe in a country where every day when people wake up they get cheerfully told by the morning news that their leader is going to wage war on yet another country that squinted at him funny using the same boilerplate reason each and every damn time and that on top of it all he's going to persist in calling it "peacekeeping" - and people buy it.
Honestly some days I can't help but feel I slipped into one of those alt. dimensions we keep hearing so much about.
