Izi ndi nthawi zodabwitsa. Mabokosi okutidwa ndi mbendera a asitikali azaka 18 omwe adaphedwa pakuwukiridwa kolephera, kosaloledwa komanso kobwezera adayikidwa mumsewu waukulu wa Wiltshire. Kupambana ku Afghanistan kuli pafupi, akutero Gordon Brown. Pa BBC Newsnight, MP wa ngwazi ya ku Afghanistan, Malalai Joya, amayesa, m'Chingerezi chake chochepa, kuuza anthu aku Britain kuti anthu ake akuwomberedwa m'dzina lawo: Anthu 140 akumudzi, makamaka ana, m'chigawo chake cha Farah. Palibe parade kwa iwo. Palibe mayina ndi nkhope zawo. Kuponderezedwa kwa kuzunzika kwa atsamunda aku Britain ndi America ndi nkhani ya chikhulupiriro cha media, mwambo wokhazikika kotero kuti sufuna malangizo.
Kusiyana lero ndikuti ambiri mwa anthu aku Britain sapusitsidwa. Owerenga nkhani okondwa atha kunena kuti "kutsimikiza kwa Britain kukuyesedwa" ngati kuti Luftwaffe yabwerera m'chizimezime, koma kafukufuku wawo (BBC/ITN) akuwonetsa kuti kunyansidwa ndi nkhondo ku Afghanistan ndi Iraq ndikwamphamvu kwambiri kunkhondo. madera omwe achinyamata amalembedwa kuti amenyane nawo. Vuto la anthu aku Britain, akutero mkulu wankhondo wopuma pantchito pa Channel 4 News, ndikuti akuyenera "kuphunzitsidwa ndi kuphunzitsidwa". Indedi amatero, analemba Bertolt Brecht mu The Solution, pofotokoza kuti anthu . . .
Anataya chikhulupiriro cha boma
Ndipo akanakhoza kupambana izo kubwerera basi
Mwa kuyesetsa kuwirikiza kawiri. Kodi sizingakhale zophweka
Zikatero kwa boma
Kuthetsa anthu
Ndi kusankha wina?
Mu Chilolezo chawo chamakono chamakono opanga: Economy Political of the Mass Media, Edward S Herman ndi Noam Chomsky akufotokoza momwe nkhani zabodza zankhondo m'magulu aulere "zimasefedwa" ndi mabungwe atolankhani, osati monga "kulowererapo mwankhanza, koma posankha zoyenera- oganiza bwino komanso mwa akonzi ndi atolankhani ogwira ntchito kuyika zinthu zofunika patsogolo ndi matanthauzo akufunika kwa nkhani". Pambuyo pa kuukira kwa US ku Vietnam, komwe anthu osachepera mamiliyoni atatu anaphedwa ndipo malo awo omwe anali olemera kale anawonongeka ndi kupha poizoni, okonza zamagazi amtsogolo adayambitsa "Vietnam syndrome", yomwe adayizindikira molakwika ngati "vuto la demokalase. ". "Vuto" linali loti "anthu ambiri adawopseza kutenga nawo mbali mu ndale, kutsutsa mwayi wokhazikitsidwa ndi mphamvu". Afghanistan ndi Iraq tsopano ali ndi ma syndromes awo.
Poganizira izi, ndikulimbikitsa owerenga mwaulemu kuti aike pambali mindandanda yowerengera patchuthi m'masamba obwereza nyuzipepala, ndi ma hauteur awo, ndikuwerenga, kapena kuwerenganso, mabuku abwino monga Chilolezo Chopanga, chomwe chimathandizira kupanga zomveka nthawi zodabwitsa.
Monga Herman ndi Chomsky akufotokozera makamaka zofalitsa zaku America, mnzake woyenera ndi Newspeak mu 21st Century, yolemba David Edwards ndi David Cromwell (yofalitsidwa mwezi wamawa ndi Pluto). Oyambitsa ndi akonzi a tsamba lodziwika bwino la www.medialens.org akupereka kugawanika kwabwino kwa zofalitsa zaufulu za ku Britain, pogwiritsa ntchito mtundu wankhanza womwe umachititsa manyazi iwo omwe amalengeza kuti alibe tsankho komanso kumasuka ku mphamvu zomwe adapatsidwa. Werenganinso A Century of Spin lolemba David Miller ndi William Dinan, omwe amafotokoza za kuwuka kwa "boma losawoneka" lopangidwa ndi mphwake wa Sigmund Freud Edward Bernays. Bernays anati: โZokopa zinakhala mawu oipa chifukwa cha Ajeremani, choncho chimene ndinachita chinali kuyesa kupeza mawu ena. Mawu ena anali "ubwenzi wapagulu", womwe tsopano umadya kwambiri utolankhani.
Kupambana kwaposachedwa kwa PR ndi "Obama phenomenon". Mu Barack Obama ndi Tsogolo la American Politics (lofalitsidwa ku US ndi Paradigm), Paul Street amachotsa chigobacho mwina m'buku lokhalo lomwe limafotokoza zoona za Purezidenti wa 44 waku United States.
Osati kuseka kokwanira? Pack Joseph Heller's Catch-22, akadali osayerekezeka pakugwetsa ma idiocies ndi mabodza a opha omwe amalimbikitsa nkhondo. Yesani izi:
"Aliyense," akutero Dr "Doc" Daneeka, "yemwe akufuna kuchoka pankhondoyo sapenga kwenikweni, ndiye
Sindingathe kumugwetsa pansi.
Yossarian: "Chabwino, ndiloleni ndikonze izi.
Kuti ndikhale wokhazikika, ndiyenera kuchita misala. Ndipo ndiyenera kukhala wopenga kuti ndipitirize kuwuluka. Koma ngati nditapempha kuti andikhazikitse, ndiye kuti sindinenso wamisala, ndipo ndiyenera kupitiriza kuuluka.
Dr "Doc" Daneeka: "Mwamvetsa . . .
Kurt Vonnegut nayenso wakuda komanso wolimba mtima komanso wosangalatsa wa Slaughterhouse Five ndi buku lina lomwe ndimakonda kwambiri lankhondo.
"Wadwala bwanji? [Colonel] anafunsa.
"Kufa kwa dziko."
"Koma osati akufa."
"Ayi."
"Ndi zabwino bwanji - kusamva kanthu, ndikukhalabe ndi mbiri yonse chifukwa chokhala ndi moyo."
Faber posachedwapa adasindikiza Mawu Osiyanasiyana a Harold Pinter: Zaka 60 za Prose, Ndakatulo, Politics (1948-2008). Ndi mwala wochokera ku Pinter pachilichonse kuyambira ku Shakespeare, kriketi yausiku ndi masokosi a Arthur Miller mpaka mphamvu zazikulu zakupha:
Izo sizinachitike. Palibe chomwe chidachitikapo. Ngakhale zinali kuchitika sizinali kuchitika. Zinalibe kanthu. Zinalibe chidwi. Milandu ya ku United States yachitika mwadongosolo, mosalekeza, yankhanza, yopanda chisoni. . . pamene akudziwonetsera ngati mphamvu yochitira zabwino padziko lonse. Ndi mchitidwe wanzeru, ngakhale wanzeru, wopambana kwambiri wa hypnosis.
Ngati simunawerenge kale, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter lolemba Carson McCullers ndizosowa: kawonedwe ka anthu ndendende, mokongola, mwaulemu, komabe pafupifupi kufotokozedwa mwangozi. Mu "zopanda pake" (F Scott Fitzgerald) wa nthano zamakono zamakono, palibe amene amakhudza McCullers kapena, chifukwa chake, Pete Dexter, yemwe Paris Trout ndi buku lalikulu losadziwika la American South, kapena Richard Ford, yemwe Rock Springs ndi kusonkhanitsa mwaluso, pakati pa ena, pa zinsinsi za amuna ndi akazi. Ndipo musaiwale za Albert Camus The Outsider, za munthu yemwe sangayerekeze: fanizo la lero. Maholide abwino.
John Pilger wapatsidwa mphotho ya ufulu wachibadwidwe ku Australia, Mphotho Yamtendere ya Sydney www.johnpilger.com