National Geographic’s + Sony’s (Vulture) Killer Story

by Pier Marton | Oct 23, 2012 | Death, Film, Middle-East, Politics, Sound, Spectacle, Wars

After Osama bin Laden’s death comes a big bang revenge spectacle in our theaters and our homes, one more glorious solidification of enmity. Evil incarnate, bring it on?
Maybe it is high time to revisit Sam Keen’s Faces of the Enemy (the book and the film)?

November 4…

With a review in the NYTimes: Obama Is Prominent in ‘SEAL Team Six,’ Weinstein Film.

December 19, Hurt-Locker-Bigelow’s version of Bin Laden’s killing: “Zero Dark Thirty”

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus