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General News    H2'ed 3/25/11

The World As A Theater of the Absurd: Interests or Idiocy?

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Ideology has become a substitute for clear thinking, while posturing and polarization define the issues of our times, leading to a stalemate and paralysis.

The theater of the absurd has gone from being a literary subculture to a mainstream political strategy. Its one thing to take an action to confuse your enemies, but today, government is routinely confusing all of us. Do we have another imperial presidency or a distracted one?

News Dissector Danny Schechter made the film Plunder The Crime Of our tTime  He blogs at newsdissector.com/blog  Feedback welcome

 

 

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