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Aug 03, 2007 09:09

a bridge collapses in Minneapolis and 4 people die. there are another 20 people missing. colour photos and newspapers everywhere dealing with the problem. it is the USA, so there's lots of talk about prayers. it is sad, but perhaps undeserving of so much talk ( Read more... )

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burgatronics August 3 2007, 02:34:29 UTC

It's ridiculous ( ... )

burgatronics August 3 2007, 02:34:41 UTC

10. Labor Power is suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated, or are severely restricted ( ... )

laconiclife August 5 2007, 23:05:40 UTC

look up Adorno's analysis of fascism. i reckon you'd find it really interesting.

sold_for_sleep August 3 2007, 03:50:11 UTC

I think it has something to do with the fact that the photos and footage of the bridge collapse makes for good news, a bridge collapsing with cars dissapearing off a messed up bridge gets peoples attention, not to mention that the west thinks of themselves as all-mighty indestructable infrastructure builing superpowers.

But then in the end, I dont really feel any more empathetic to anyone, regardless of the country they came from because really they are just numbers published in a paper and no-one can relate the to the lives lost on an individual level.

burgatronics August 3 2007, 07:24:33 UTC

i believe there is a racist bias among news agency's towards Africa. The crisis in Dufur gets little coverage at all in western media.
Manufacturing Consent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Political_Economy_of_the_Mass_Media

laconiclife August 5 2007, 23:04:26 UTC

i disagree. i think lots of people can relate to lost lives on an individual level. most people can relate to loss of loved ones. also,lots of people have lost people in accidents or unexpectedly.

dase August 3 2007, 12:01:13 UTC

they look more like 'us', they have a lifestyle simillar to 'us' = empathy. More empathy than people who look different dying in a train accident in conditions that seem 'primitive' to us. It's like the fault of, well everyone I guess, all of us as people for buying it, ideologues and media for being lazy and going with what sells, what sells being determined by us who buy it, etc...

this kinda weirds me out though because I put something on my band's blog about a simillar thing this morning:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=149467275&blogID=295032047