Its War

WAR

What is it good for?
As I watch the Wagnerian news programs that populate the mediashpere I am driven to question the aims and motives of the benevolent 5th estate.
The drums of war are beating with gleeful abandon as masked anchors veil their excitement with concern and faux intellectualism while pontificating through the news cycle. They all ask the same questions; What are the implications for the region? How does this affect the US? What can be done by the international community to stop the violence?
Banal and mundane questions meant to obscure the true matter at hand. These simplistic queries do nothing but affirm the prevailing assumptions under which the media would seem to exist.
And above all things, and with much audacity, these minions of moguls dare to ask this: What is the cause?
Why is this such a transgression? What's wrong with that question? Who the hell are you, you may be driven to contemplate.
This is such an egregious misuse of our inquisitive media because they accept the answer that is given by the politicians and powermongers. We are told that it is because of a series of kidnappings and some pot shot rockets. Are we to believe that these civilizations are going to war because 3 soldiers are missing and novice rocket engineers fire futiliy into enemy territory? If one were to listen to CNN and FOX and MSNBC and NPR and etc...then we would certainly believe this fairy tale. We would believe that these civilizations have been locked in mortal combat since the dawn of time. We would find it quite reasonable that this is an irrational conflict borne from genetic wounds that were inflicted millenia ago and have since festered and motasticized into the current conflagration.

Surely, and I say this as though my life depends upon an affirmative response, the people of the world do not believe this bullshit? Please let it be the case the we, as a community, know and feel that we have been hoodwinked. Dear lord let it be true that we do accept the value of these statements as true!

The causes of this conflict reach far back into the early 20 century, the end of colonization and the birth of global capitalism. It might even be wise to postulate that the origins of this problem strech back farther, to the very advent of capitalism. But, either way does not fundamentally change the ground on which we currently stand. Deep within the darkened and smokey corridors of power the fate of the world was drawn. With a blind eye to the future men laid lines and devined fates that have now come to be. And we sit at this point in history, left floating amongst the mistakes that are not ours, and we drive on ceaselessly into the night making the same mistakes of our fathers.

So what is it that we are to do here? Which way are we to go...?