Discussion on the narritive the media creates about war. Belief systems are being reinforced by tv programs like "24" that propagate a political view on war.
Assigning values in war. You can bomb this area, but not this area because there is fewer casualties. There are absolutes, the absolute is that killing is wrong, there is no cost benefit analysis that will justify this act.
Watching Bombing on Baghdad. War has become a next tv mini series drama. It is set up like a movie that we watch so that it does not appear to be real. Instead it becomes a special that is quickly forgotten about after the show is over. This refers back to the comment that once a narrative has been broadcast it becomes history and we no longer feel effected by it.
9-11 the footage played of the towers going down and people jumping out of the building. There was a certain amount of pleasure watching reality TV, this sense or infatuation with real time events and needing to understand them through a visual means, has actually desensitized us to the consequences of the event.
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