002. Antisthenes Corollaries - Published in Neo Genesis Daily.
...maybe the world does have a Word of the Day function. Or week, rather. Repetition of terms is the oldest learning tool in the world, though, so I suppose this is justified. I just wish our beloved media system could evolve into something that didn't assume its target audience is four years old and enduring potty training. If you are four years old and enduring potty training, though, I'm going to be so terribly, terribly disappointed.
Regardless, news is starting to get just this side of repetitive - curfew reminder, terrorists, military babble, terrorists are bad, how not to get killed by the military, how not to be killed by terrorist, discussing military announcements, discussing making an announcement to the terrorists - to the point I wonder if I should rechristen this column as The Terrorist Alert or Militant Conversations. They have a nice ring to it, don't they? Shame they're so despairingly conformist and I would feel bad if I deluded my audience into believing I'm a conformist.
So in the spirit of breaking monotony, I propose a military/terrorist free day. No mention of blown up labs or unnecessary reminders of that pesky curfew, at all. I'm sure there would be some losses - like the people who actually need those reminders - but I'm sure they wouldn't be substantial. There's always martyrs for great causes, and I happen to believe the battle against tedium is one of the most important ones. Who knows, maybe they could get Senator Liebert to dedicate one of his famous speeches to them; truly an honor, that.
There is the pesky fact that simply by ignoring them, it doesn't mean either the military and the terrorist campaign will disappear - see also the aforementioned martyrdom - but...
Hey, it works on kinder garden kids, doesn't it? And it's that or actually choosing sides.
--- Superbi Squalo writes a weekly column, Antisthenes Corollaries, for Neo Genesis Daily, as well as contributing with editorial work. Commentary on the column and further discussion boards can be found at his own blog.
Regardless, news is starting to get just this side of repetitive - curfew reminder, terrorists, military babble, terrorists are bad, how not to get killed by the military, how not to be killed by terrorist, discussing military announcements, discussing making an announcement to the terrorists - to the point I wonder if I should rechristen this column as The Terrorist Alert or Militant Conversations. They have a nice ring to it, don't they? Shame they're so despairingly conformist and I would feel bad if I deluded my audience into believing I'm a conformist.
So in the spirit of breaking monotony, I propose a military/terrorist free day. No mention of blown up labs or unnecessary reminders of that pesky curfew, at all. I'm sure there would be some losses - like the people who actually need those reminders - but I'm sure they wouldn't be substantial. There's always martyrs for great causes, and I happen to believe the battle against tedium is one of the most important ones. Who knows, maybe they could get Senator Liebert to dedicate one of his famous speeches to them; truly an honor, that.
There is the pesky fact that simply by ignoring them, it doesn't mean either the military and the terrorist campaign will disappear - see also the aforementioned martyrdom - but...
Hey, it works on kinder garden kids, doesn't it? And it's that or actually choosing sides.
--- Superbi Squalo writes a weekly column, Antisthenes Corollaries, for Neo Genesis Daily, as well as contributing with editorial work. Commentary on the column and further discussion boards can be found at his own blog.