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Dehumanising demonstrated

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Many other bloggers who I may have linked to once or twice in the past have commented before on the denormalisation of smoking, and the dehumanisation of one’s enemies is a tried and tested technique. So it was quite fascinating to watch a very blatant example of such a thing on BBC4 tonight in The Smoking years. Notionally a historical program the propaganda aspects weren’t even thinly veiled with smokers referred to as “creatures” and a separate species from early on and in the blurb on the BBC’s web site: “Timeshift reveals the story of the creature that is ‘the … Continue reading →

Happy new year

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As the rest of today is going to involve the serious business of visiting friends and getting drunk, possibly in that order. I’d just like to wish all/both of my readers and various commentators a happy new year and pray god the next one’s better than the last. Usual lack of service will resume once the planned for hangover is gone, I plan to drink my months recommended drinking tonight as a minimum. Who knows I might even try to update a bit more next year. Have fun everyone … it’ll annoy the puritans. 00

Who are Anonymous fighting?

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As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before I don’t really think all that much of “anonymous” or at least of their public actions. I can’t help but think they are at best well intentioned idiots – with, much like wikileaks, little concern for the collateral damage they cause as long as they get headlines. Time and again I wonder who they cause more damage to, or course it’s the nature of the “anonymous” movement that anyone can do anything and claim it was an act of “anonymous” – want to blow up a nuclear power station and claim it was the … Continue reading →