War Pr0n 0
At Asia Times, Pepe Escobar takes a look at what keeps the 101st Fighting Keyboard Brigade turned on. War is for them what guns are for gun nuts: their viagra.
There is, however, a crucial difference. Gun nuts actually shoot guns, often when they shouldn’t.
The Fighting 101st doesn’t actually fight wars; it just likes to watch.
This was also a war OF terror – as in a manifestation of state terror pitting urban high-tech might against basically rural, low-tech cunning. The US did not exercise this monopoly; Beijing practiced it in Xinjiang, its far west, and Russia practiced it in Chechnya.
Like porn, war porn cannot exist without being based on a lie – a crude representation. But unlike porn, war porn is the real thing; unlike crude, cheap snuff movies, people in war porn actually die – in droves.
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