Comments on: the year ahead http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2008/01/01/the-year-ahead/ rehashed rearranged reiterated pre-rendered Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:57:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: fred http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2008/01/01/the-year-ahead/#comment-63690 fred Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:18:32 +0000 http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2008/01/01/the-year-ahead/#comment-63690 @jed: you know how they say in politics, perceptions are important? Benazir Bhutto's assassination is a case in point: slay the leader espousing democratic values in one of the more heinous ways possible and we have instant matyrdom. Seems to me people protesting on her behalf have conveniently forgotten what she stood for (and her actions should speak louder than her demagoguery I think you'll agree) and have instead focused on the injustice of her slaying. (Benazir Bhutto is now indistinguishable from her assassination, ya?) @Langkau Fiction: we are either a fast-food-consumerist society gorging on a diet of "flash news" or we have been duped into being so.. didn't you know? it's all truth on CNN, bro! Who needs history when we're constantly reminded how we're living it, 24/7, breaknews breaknews breaknews! @jed: you know how they say in politics, perceptions are important? Benazir Bhutto’s assassination is a case in point: slay the leader espousing democratic values in one of the more heinous ways possible and we have instant matyrdom.

Seems to me people protesting on her behalf have conveniently forgotten what she stood for (and her actions should speak louder than her demagoguery I think you’ll agree) and have instead focused on the injustice of her slaying.

(Benazir Bhutto is now indistinguishable from her assassination, ya?)

@Langkau Fiction: we are either a fast-food-consumerist society gorging on a diet of “flash news” or we have been duped into being so.. didn’t you know? it’s all truth on CNN, bro! Who needs history when we’re constantly reminded how we’re living it, 24/7, breaknews breaknews breaknews!

]]> By: Langkau Fiction http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2008/01/01/the-year-ahead/#comment-63660 Langkau Fiction Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:42:26 +0000 http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2008/01/01/the-year-ahead/#comment-63660 This is what I've always thought all along! We have a terrible history of forgetting as opposed to forgetting history, as history is constructed in a way to be temporary and easily forgotten, just like how local newspapers are meant to be valid for one day...or something like that. This is what I’ve always thought all along! We have a terrible history of forgetting as opposed to forgetting history, as history is constructed in a way to be temporary and easily forgotten, just like how local newspapers are meant to be valid for one day…or something like that.

]]> By: Jed Yoong http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2008/01/01/the-year-ahead/#comment-63525 Jed Yoong Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:11:41 +0000 http://xpyred.textfiend.net/2008/01/01/the-year-ahead/#comment-63525 agree. short memories. we must make people remember. we must stick to our beliefs. MUST MUST MUST, but also planning to leave? check this write up by philip bowring on asia sentinel http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=962&Itemid=31 agree. short memories. we must make people remember. we must stick to our beliefs. MUST MUST MUST, but also planning to leave?

check this write up by philip bowring on asia sentinel
http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=962&Itemid=31

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