That was a famous song from one of the super-bands of all times, Queen, but it's application is quite wide. In this case it's the Show Of Terror(ism) that must go on...
Give me a break guys, just give me a break... As soon as the US pull out of Iraq and the Afghan war has stopped being a sensation guess what..? Bin Laden woke up from his hibernation and started threatening France and sending mail-bombs to the USA...
Who is he working for after all? 'cause from my poor and uneducated point of view he has been long doing a favor to the US and the terror-hungry industry and media.
It so happened that I recently read the novel "Foster You're Dead" by the infamous Philip Dick. It describes a society where everybody has a car and a TV so consumption was dropping dangerously. So, in order to keep consumption at the appropriate levels the super powers created a never ending war-fear and started selling defensive toolkits and apparatus to consumers. The perfect sales-pitch, as Philip Dick puts it:
"You know, this game has one real advantage over selling people cars and TV sets. With something like this we have to buy. It isn't a luxury, something big and flashy to impress the neighbors, something we could do without. If we don't buy this we die. They always said the way to sell something was create anxiety in people. Create a sense of insecurity - tell them they smell bad or look funny. But this makes a joke out of deodorant of hair oil. You can't escape this. If you don't buy, they'll kill you. The perfect sales-pitch. Buy or die - new slogan. Have a shiny bomb shelter in your back yard or be slaughtered."
Any similarities to our reality are purely coincidental...
Have fun!
Dimitris Staikos
