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Christopher J Falvey is the author of THE VN/VO at http://www.vnvo.com
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The War on Terror, as it is constituted, will fail, because we're forgetting the one great weapon: our culture.
We hear a lot about the connection between terrorism and the black market - real-world cause-and-effect isn't so black and white
With the expansion of the importance of political documentaries on our culture, and conflict has arisen: the dichotomy between the sensational (and often treacherous) vision of the world as seen through this new media, and the realities of the mundane world of factual cause-and-effect. To the masses, life keeps getting worse and something must be done about it. Reality- though mundane- actually shows us something different.
The argument over new security technologies in America seem to always center around the proverbial "Big Brother Police State." However, this is not the paramount issue.
Is the Plame/Libby/Rove controversy really news?
The Chicago Bulls explore DNA screening for future health risks of one of their players, and some day such testing may be used for every job- minimum wage on up. Scary? The debate exposes some cultural faults of our society- where the issues of civil liberty may be the reverse of the final results.
The evolution of the baseball playoffs- where now even losing teams now have a shot at winning- tells us a lot of about our culture. From the upbringing of our children, through our skewed vision of success as adults, we're a culture that is increasingly permissive of "averageness." How will this fare in a world where competing cultures are forced to be much more crude in their determination of winners and losers?
In the national debate on the war in Iraq, there has been surprisingly little debate on, well, the war coming from the anti-war crowd. Not only is this not helping their own cause, it is also rather dangerous- as the lack of a real debate on the real issues implicitly assures conformity to the Administration's side of such issues.
Or: How to win every argument dealing with the physical, mental or moral health of Americans.
The UN recently released an atlas "revealing the global devastation of man." Upon a closer look, what is included in the book does not help prove man's destruction- as media reviews have gleaned. However, what is not included in the book does illustrate where the modern environmentalist contention logically falls short.
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