BlackRabbit2264 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

The symbolism is consistent.

dalanmcnabola (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

If you're talking about what's going on in the piece at 4:42, then it's a still of the female private who took the blame for the whole Abu Ghraib Prison torture debacle, with a leash around the next of one of the detainees. I pushed in on the still to her hand holding the leash or maybe it was a belt.

JoeyDaytona (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Extremist religious "terrorists" hear voices, think it is a higher power, get captured and tortured, so we torture the mentally ill. A city is made up of religious extremists and we bomb them over there because they are Muslim, yet we tolerate the Fundamentalist (Church of) Latter Day Saints (FLDS) IN Utah and elsewhere - I'd like to see an Islamic religious city here remain unbombed. Re: Romney, Cofer Black, CIA... etc.

joyboy1985 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

who do you think owns youtube?

ShaneR1988 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

what the hell is goin on in 4.42??

ShaneR1988 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

bush is the biggest tyrant goini dont care what anyone sez

SuburbanHell (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

at least as a youtube viewer I have some control over the images I choose to see, which is slightly better than the propaganda spewed by the reigning mammoth media conglomerates on the boob tube.

GlobalDissident (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Would you say that Youtube is a spectacle or a situation? It does have fleeting moments of authenticity, but seems governed by images, same as the rest of our society. Plus it is even more impersonal and alienating.

ontheraido (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

"In both form and content the spectacle serves as a total justification of the conditions and goals of the existing system. The spectacle also represents the constant presence of this justification since it monopolizes the majority of the time spent outside the production process."

ontheraido (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

"In all of its particular manifestations--news, propoganda, advertising, entertainment--the spectacle represents the dominant model of life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choices that have already been made in the sphere of production and in the consumption implied by the production."