"The Future is Now"

A psychologically astute article from David Warren. It is dated Apr. 12, but I just found out about it today:

.... The sight of Iraqis in Baghdad pulling down the statue of Saddam, beating its face with their shoes, and kissing photographs of President Bush thus arrived like a missile into what Fouad Ajami has so discerningly called, "the dream palace of the Arabs" -- the collective fantasy into which powerful media such as Al-Jazeera had been playing. It was no mere surprise; it was a profound shock to the entire nervous system of the Arab world. It was the first shock on anything like this scale since June 1967, when another generation of Arabs woke to the discovery that tiny Israel had destroyed the massed armies of all the most powerful Arab states, in just six days. But that did not happen with the immediacy of live television.....

(Thanks, Peter.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 04/25/03 12:26:17 PM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.