13 Oct 2007
TV for those who enjoy massacres

This has to be one of the finer screeds to cross my desktop in quite a while. And it's right on: I've seen Futureweapons, once, and was appropriately horrified at the casual way in which weapons of mass destruction were "marketed". The only "educational" value I could find in it (as that's allegedly the Discovery Channel's mission) was from a "know your enemy" perspective.

In 1991, Bad: Or the Dumbing of America was published. Written by Paul Fussell, a man with experience of war, it pessimistically ran through all that was execrable in the United States with the realisation things were only going to get worse.

(link) [The Register]

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