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The Hurt Locker, The Academy Awards And The Rehabilitation Of The Iraq War
The Hurt Locker, the Academy Awards and the rehabilitation of the Iraq war
By David Walsh | WSWS
Massachusetts reported an amazing 8 out of 10 in it's delegation getting the anti-war religion, after a wake-up call by disgusted Democrats who stayed home in a recent election, giving the nation Scott Brown.
Most notable was that a key member of Congress, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. David Obey, voted to pull troops out within 9 months. As committee chairman Obey has the power to singlehandedly block war funding, or impose strict conditions.
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony was a spectacle of banality and cowardice.
The three films the Academy rewarded most highly, The Hurt Locker, Precious and Inglourious Basterds, collectively embody something retrograde and foul in the film industry, and all fly under false flags.
The Hurt Locker, despite claims about its “apolitical” or “non-partisan” character, proves in its own unsavory fashion to be a pro-war and pro-imperialist film. Far from offering a compassionate view of inner-city African-American life in America, Precious wallows in social backwardness, which it blames on the oppressed themselves. Quentin Tarantino’s repulsive Inglourious Basterds postures as an “anti-Nazi” film, but offers its own brand of porno-sadism, which has more than a whiff of fascism about it.
Three genuinely appalling works. Read more.
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I moderate a small network of politically-savvy people (there are 6 of us), and because we're scattered across the North American continent, we meet online.
One of the subjects which came up during our online chat last weekend was how Hollywood is continually serving up big, steaming piles of backwardness, ignorance, banality and illiteracy to the American public.
While The Hurt Locker, Precious and Inglourious Basterds may not have gone over well with all of the American people, enough Americans watched these films, either at the multiplex, DVD/Blu-Ray or Video On Demand, and in so doing, they forked over several millions of dollars into the bank accounts of the studios which released these films.
This made us wonder whether the American people are beginning to crack up under the strain of decades of non-stop psychological warfare which began the moment Harry S Truman took office and hasn't let up since.
When fascism, "virtuous victimization", social backwardness and isolation and porno-sadism are presented to an American population which is being beaten, battered and abused by government, with they are seething with social frustration and discontent, it makes you wonder just how long this can go on before something breaks within the American psyche which will cause the population to rise up in a massive social eruption that the present economic crisis is preparing.
It's highly possible that this massive social eruption will produce vast changes in artistic and cultural life which will uplift the human mind and soul, propelling it toward a higher vision which stretches beyond the boundaries of Earth and embraces the universe. But, as we discussed this, our hope for this kind of positive social eruption is tempered with the knowledge that those who are against this sort of thing are ready, willing and eager to destroy those who dare to defy the current, spiritually deadly (but extremely profitable) status quo.