News Hour segment on "Stop Loss"

[PetraPooh]

I'm watching the NewsHour and they are doing a segment on "Stop Loss" and other Iraq War films that are critically acclaimed but not doing well in the theaters. One man, Mr Farber,is commenting that Americans, though generally against the war, are not interested in the realities that these films portray. that we don't care. I say, poppycock! For me at least it is not a lack of interest or caring, it is the knowledge that even if I do watch, even if I do feel compelled to "make a difference;" in the past 7 years I've learned that no matter how many folks get together in peaceful protests, marches, and similar acts, we are entirely ignored. Knowing that "we the people" have been castrated and are essentially impotent to make a difference because of being ignored, election fraud, nazi-style patriotism; I just don't want to become intimate with yet another reason I will want to scream about injustices and illegalities, and get entirely ignored, feel the complete impotence I felt after the anti-war protests failed to make a difference, or after Kerry and Gore had the elections stolen, or after finally getting a Democratic majority into Congress just to have nothing much change.

It isn't apathy, it really isn't. It is the fact that there is no point in me knowing or learning much more about these things, because "I, a person" of "we, the people" have been made impotent, and there's no viagra for this type of impotenct.

[gateley]

1. I agree --

It's not apathy. I feel literally physically sick with all the anger, frustration, hatred and impotence I feel about this war. Helpless.