May 03, 2006
ZIGGY GADDAFI
Gaddafi the Opera is shaping up as an exercise in flaccid moral relativism, which isn't surprising since the English National Opera commissioned Asian Dub Foundation - whose last CD was about the evil Iraq War - to write it with playwright Shan Khan, a leftist of typically muddled moral clarity:
"Gaddafi is a nutter, we know that, but so was Reagan. So is Bush, so is Blair. Gaddafi is a nutter because he blows people up. Do you not think they blow people up?"
Got that? Both Hitler & Churchill were nutters because they blew people up. Here's ADF's Steve Chandra Savale:
"What really drew me to Gaddafi was the fact that western petrol addiction gives him more importance than he would have had otherwise. In a sense, the West created the demon."
This is a typical finesse by which leftists absolve Third Worlders (including Bin Laden) of moral responsibility, & erase their victims, just as previous leftists absolved Lenin, Stalin, Mao, & Ho & erased their millions of victims. It's a Eurocentric, Chomskyite worldview that revolves entirely around the evils of the West:
"This will be anything but mainstream. Gaddafi's like Ziggy Stardust in reverse ... And the story has everything - oil, terrorism, women bodyguards. Gaddafi draws on his own Bedouin heritage as well as Marx, Rousseau & the Koran [& Hitler & Ramses] to create an idealistic revolution."
Bonus: it's directed by Antonia Bird, who made The Hamburg Cell, an attempt to humanize the 9/11 hijackers "because of the demonization that's gone on, the absolute refusal to look at the motivations." Hint: it's not about jihad. Get your Gaddafi tickets now!
VIDEO: Asian Dub Foundation & Sinead O'Conner: 1000 Mirrors
Posted by Jeff at May 3, 2006 12:04 AM
Comments
"Gaddafi draws on his own Bedouin heritage as well as Marx, Rousseau & the Koran...."
Which Marx brother is he talking about?
Posted by: Rittenhouse at May 3, 2006 09:41 AM
I'm addicted to oil because I'm addicted to work because I'm addicted to eating. It's a vicious circle.
Posted by: Rachel at May 3, 2006 05:12 PM
Oh stop it
Posted by: beautifulatrocities at May 3, 2006 05:36 PM
This post really wrote itself> didn't it? I mean.. like shooting fish in a.. bowl.
=darwin
Posted by: Darwin at May 5, 2006 08:50 PM
flaccid moral relativism
Phrase of the Week!!
by a fella named Sean Con, eh? World events creating hoistorical figures, uhm? "The Gaddafi Look" has changed over the years...
Posted by: Claire at May 6, 2006 07:46 AM
