Nordic wrote:Yeah, I just looked through the news, wondering how they would gussy up his legacy. I was expecting to see big headlines and bigger stories about what a tremendous human being he was, a virtual saint of the military.
But there was nothing there that I could even find.
Which, honestly, is just WEIRD AS HELL.
Isn't it?
Yes, it is weird.
Baudrillard argued the Gulf War was not really a war, but rather an atrocity which masqueraded as a war.[1] – using overwhelming airpower, the US armed forces for the most part did not directly engage in combat with the Iraqi army, and suffered few casualties. Almost nothing was made known about Iraqi deaths. Thus, the fighting "did not really take place" from the point of view of the West. Moreover, all that spectators got to know about the war was in the form of propaganda imagery. The closely watched media presentations made it impossible to distinguish between the experience of what truly happened in the conflict, and its stylized, selective misrepresentation through "simulacra".[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_W ... Take_Place
And thus Stormin' Norman never really lived and nor did he die. Into the trash heap for historians of which nobody's interested in. Stormin' Norman exemplifies a dying mindset that gripped this country back then. The rise of the right wing AM radio phenomenon and preternatural necessity to always be on a "war footing" with technology and a dose of Hollywood badass on "our side".
