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by Forty Two » Mon Jul 10, 2017 3:46 pm
All these dopey articles from the likes of The Guardian and Slate just sound like bad "peer reviewed" postmodern social science publications.
"As Trump pulls us deeper into his personal cinematic nightmare—there’s a chilling montage of bad photos of him smiling unconvincingly at other world leaders—the ever-widening disconnect between sound and image brilliantly echoes the disconnect between America’s self-image and our actions on the global stage. “Step into the future,” the choir sings,..."
That doesn't even say anything. What's a "personal cinematic nightmare?" I don't like Trump. He's all show. So, his is a "personal cinematic nightmare." Photos of him smiling are not of him smiling - he smiles "unconvincingly" (that's an objective fact to be reported on - unconvincing smiles), and the series of photos is not a series of photos...it's a "chilling montage." Why? What proof or evidence is of this, beyond the subjective preconceived notions brought to the table by the writer? Is this reporting? Or, is it a puff hit piece?
There's an undescribed "disconnect between sound and image" - obviously, the image is of the unconvincing smiles, but what's the sound? Is he sounding convincing? Does he say good stuff, but that's "disconnected" from the image, which proves otherwise? What is this garbage? And, this "perfectly echoes" the disconnect between America's "self image" and "our actions on the global stage." Lol - what's the self image the author is referring to? He doesn't describe. What actions on the global stage? He doesn't say. There's just a disconnect. I guess in Merka we think we're awesome but we suck. That's probably the "disconnect" he's talking about.
All it boils down to is a lot of extra words used to say "Trump = bad, mmmkay?" So every smile is "unconvincing."
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar