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TnDoc's avatar

A delightful unintended confession. Thanks for sharing. If there were any justice....

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Lately, I've been reflecting on the propaganda inputs of my childhood coming through in popular TV shows, and what they might say about this casual disposition toward war crimes, as well as toward the daily gun violence in US cities. And my brain, a repository of music that I dislike as well as music I treasure, came up with this ditty from an old TV horse opera called Texas John Slaughter (compliments of Disney). With an aptly named lead character, the theme song told us that "Texas John Slaughter made 'em do what they oughta, 'cause if they didn't they died." Helps me recognize that I've been fighting that casual attitude toward American authoritarian violence ever since I began to awaken in my late teens. Murder is so deeply ingrained in the marrow of this culture that a brain-addled mediocrity like Dubya in charge of the world's most ridiculously outsized military should surprise no one.

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