You accept his translation of the political into the aesthetic. I do not.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
Joanna: "This is the kind of cynicism"
[WS:] Cynicism? I call it realism. Let's face it, OBL was anything but a reality show written in blood. What he did or sponsored was designed solely to make a big publicity splash of of the proportions that ordinary TV reality show cannot even dream of achieving. Everyone on this planet was a spectator, even those like me who do not watch TV, let alone reality shows. If people did not die in that show, I would call it a travesty of cosmic struggle. It certainly was not a struggle in any ordinary sense, because no one with half a brain would imagine that blowing up a few planes and building would achieve any objectives other than making a big splash in the Western culture that OBL supposedly despised. In fact OBL was a 100% product of the worst aspects of that culture - the reality show business which in fact is a parody of reality - since everything in it is for its shock value and has zero impact on real life.