Entertainment & War, Pt. III

THE WORLD IS ALIGHT (and Twitter, too) with talk of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama, and it has all caught me a bit off rhythm. Not that I don’t think it’s fantastic and exciting, of course it is. History is clearly being etched across our slate, and it’s amazing. Yet, I’m here in the sway of my work and my play, and as I’ve abandoned the daily push and pull of news cycle synergy, I’m a bit off-topic at the moment. Still thinking heavily of Gaza and Israel and the killing, bombing, PSYOPS, info flow, my own family, history, oppressions, peoples, imperialism and “good” wars waged by militarily and mightily superior nations and how those who deal in violence use TV events and societal galas to mask intensification of oppression, that is, how media and its heavy integration with our lives and emotional landscapes is used by those who would control or harm others and so our entertainment is their weapon, or…rather, our symbiosis with media, and thus, the predictable nature of our mass-attention…. Lots of thoughts.

Anyway, here’s the video I did last year for MLK day.