Returning To The Simulacrum
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Once again there's cleverness in the Republican attack -- this time from Rush Limbaugh suggesting Michael J. Fox was simulating his symptoms during this political ad airing in Missouri:
Beaudrillard offered medical symptoms as an example when he said: Simulation threatens the difference between "true" and "false", between "real" and "imaginary". Introducing even the smallest doubt about what you're seeing is decidedly clever.
But forget about the hifallut'n Frenchified that I probably don't understand anyway. The ad itself is hopelessly unsophisticated -- even to the point of being counterproductive. Like a public embrace of Cindy Sheehan it's full of the suggestion that our case is emotional.
The case for scientific research is decidedly unemotional; the Republican position, (usually a prone position while getting angioplasty or secret antibiotics for std's), hypocritical.
Our case isn't emotional in the least. Scientific research? An end to an incompetently prosecuted war? What's more rational than these?
An ad like this let's the idealogues occupy the high ground of rationality (leadership!) even as they're demonstrably thoughtless.
Beaudrillard offered medical symptoms as an example when he said: Simulation threatens the difference between "true" and "false", between "real" and "imaginary". Introducing even the smallest doubt about what you're seeing is decidedly clever.
But forget about the hifallut'n Frenchified that I probably don't understand anyway. The ad itself is hopelessly unsophisticated -- even to the point of being counterproductive. Like a public embrace of Cindy Sheehan it's full of the suggestion that our case is emotional.
The case for scientific research is decidedly unemotional; the Republican position, (usually a prone position while getting angioplasty or secret antibiotics for std's), hypocritical.
Our case isn't emotional in the least. Scientific research? An end to an incompetently prosecuted war? What's more rational than these?
An ad like this let's the idealogues occupy the high ground of rationality (leadership!) even as they're demonstrably thoughtless.
1 Comments:
Not clever. Just a typical low blow. You give the American people too much credit--they want the argument to be emotional :)
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