Iraq Bush humor internet
Sock and Awe
December 18, 2008
You are probably already many who have seen this video where an Iraqi journalist throws his shoes at George Bush's head, during his visit to Iraq.
Here is an address, randomly chosen, where you can find the scene
One could laugh, if the context weren't so tragic. But humor is a weapon, that of non-violent people, and ridicule can cause significant damage. Here, people have created a video game that shows how the internet can produce interactive media. A video already viewed by ... tens of millions of internet users!
The game consists of hitting the President with a shoe
As a journalist wrote, this shoe has entered history. It has become a symbol of refusal. Shortly after this incident, Iraqi students threw shoes at G.I.s, and they retaliated with real ones.
The title Sock and Awe ("Socks and Awe") is a play on the expression Shock and Awe, meaning "Shock and Awe," the central theme of Naomi Klein's book, which discusses how totalitarian regimes impose martial law following an event that places a population in a state of shock (shock) mixed with fear (awe).
We are living in a strange historical era, very connected to the circulation of information on the Internet and the possibility for internet users to choose their sources of information. The central battle always revolves around the major event of these past decades: September 11. Who wins in this struggle between information and disinformation?
This battle can be found at all levels. In the scientific and technical world, I will provide concrete, first-hand evidence, how powerful lobbies, from this world, hide, in a harmful and dramatic way, major scientific results to develop end-of-the-world weapons, as described, using an expression borrowed from Jungk, in his famous 1950s book, detailing the era of the nuclear weapon, as follows:
Technically sweet ---