Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> Max says:
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> >There has been a rational, anti-right-wing/pro-peace Israeli/Zionist
> >left for 20 years, with its own auxiliary in the U.S. Has its own
> >magazine (Tikkun, w/the infamous Michael 'Politics of Meaning' Lerner).
> >This is all old shit.
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> And a while ago A. Finlayson wrote:
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<<Why then do the American policy elite go to such great lengths to hide
information from _even those Americans who make active efforts to seek
it, using FOIA suits and the like_, even about US government actions
taken many decades ago in the good old days of the Cold War and before
it?<<<
[Max] Well, it isn't very well hidden is it seeing as how you know all about it.
[Yoshie:]> While information alone is never enough, I think both you &
Finlayson
> are overestimating what people know, assuming that everyone is a
> media junkie like most leftists.
This overlaps a point I made in various discussions of "conspiracy theory." Quite aside from the probable falsity of all such theories, promulgating them is a significant barrier to a far more important revelation: Exposing open secrets. Instead of running around trying to prove that there is a CIA plot someplace or other we need to be spreading the kind of news that is available to anyone but that (a) most people (for fairly good reasons) don't search out or (b) isn't important unless people both know it but _know_ that others _know_. That's why factory exposures at one time were so effective. What was the readership of those exposures? Why the very factory workers the leaflets talked about -- that is, those who were experiencing the abuses described but in an important sense didn't know they were until they saw them in print and knew that others were seeing them in print -- were seeing them _collectively_. It doesn't help if all 280 million americans know that Sharon is a killer. They have to know that everyone else knows it and knows that......
Expose what people already know but can't acknowledge to themselves or others that they do know it. Carrol