File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_2001/baudrillard.0109, message 6


From: JEAN BAUDRILLARD <semanticterrorist-AT-home.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 16:36:42 -0700
Subject: Re: Hello


>And all I did was question the equation US military might=universal
>right.
>And then, to make matters worse, I asked (and continue to wonder)
>why people
>who spout chapter and verse of this Big Bible Book do not appear to
>question
>their own belief systems--especially when confronted with what i
>thought
>might be a conflict brought "home" in the most horrible, literal and
>figurative manner.


I agree completely.  Previously, we liked to believe we were seperate 
from the rest of the world, and could dabble here and there in the 
world without it coming back to bite us.  Well, now it has, and the 
US is paying the price.  What really died that day was the myth of 
America.


-- 
JEAN BAUDRILLARD, semanticterrorist-AT-home.com on 09/16/2001



   

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