Perhaps I read too much Eagleton and Jameson, but does anyone else find Bush's endorsment of a shoot-to-kill policy over looting a bit uncaring. I don't usually endorse crime, but is killing someone because they steal a TV really a pro-life policy?
And is there any doubt that we live in a fear culture when, in the apocalyptic madness of an instant society, people wait an hour to fill up there SUV's with precious petrol.
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Pursuing a "shoot to kill" policy on luting will certainly alienate Bush's minstrel constituency.
Now who is the Grammar Viking?
Dude, we're totally experiencing all kinds of intertextual echoes in this conversation! I feel so close to you right now.
"Shoot to Kill" is that an intertextual echo of Pat Robertson's call for Chavez's assassination?
no but i did intend Orwell's book to be a sort of metalepsis of the problems of empire and the need to 'show' power even when it doesn't make sense.
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