Alexandra’s Home of Thought

I’ve just finished watching Fahrenheit 9/11 (I know I’m way behing with movies ) and although all those conspiracy theories are very coherent and intriguing to some point (my limit of understanding and the available information) what actually shocked me is in the second part of the movie: the people. Soldiers fighting there, families waiting back home, citizens with an “extremely developed” civic sense.

I think you have to have a lot of cold blood and be truly brainwashed in order to say that the people you are killing are rather upset that you are there and you don’t understand why. You need the same state of mind to have a favourite song to kill to. I’m not saying that all the soldiers are in this deep state of ignorance, I’m sure many realized how things really are. The problem is that nobody (or at least not so many) caught on before it was too late. We’re proving ourselves once again that we’re flattering ourselves about our evolved civilization for nothing. Nothing essential has changed. Propaganda, lies, conspiracy, (self)destruction, hate stupidity, manipulation, hipocrisy, interests still exist. And they all prevale in the land of all possibilities, in the land of democracy and freedom.

How can you as an American citizen go and encourage young people wanting to go to college to enrole? How can you look into their eyes and tell them that Shaggy was in the military and that they will be able to go around the world to see places and be really happy when others like them are dying as you speak? How can you as a representative of a company go to a conference and embrace the advantages of the war, the way it’s gonna make you make more money once the “barbarians” will accept to give you all their oil? I thought we were humans first and then money-making machines. Or maybe things have changed.

We’re fighting other people’s war for nothing. People in Iraq don’t need to be freed. They were just fine with their own culture, with their own life style and rhythm of living. We are not the gods of humanity just because we live in democracy, that doesn’t make us all-knowing. We are fools listening to a bigger fool who unfortunately is in a decision-making position. I for one know for sure that at the moment the USA are not the state model we want to adopt. I for one don’t want to. The leaders of our home land…that’s another debate. Anyway, if we were to analyze other political and military conflicts in the world we’d see they resemble what’s going on in the USA. But the visibility the States have make us talk more about their issues.

The movie (and the situation actually) is an excellent debate material for people in my university. The way they build their messages and how they strike the public in key moments, the way they used mass psychology and took advantage of the slightest change in the international political environment, the contradictions between statements and actions, between decisions and perspectives. Only to think about the work of that poor image counselor trying to take care of what Bush says, does, how he appears in public etc. It’s endless.

I’m angry and slightly confused. Watch the movie if you haven’t yet. If you did, watch it again for observation’s sake. I for one would like to be able to think more for myself.