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At the Golden Globes, there were gongs for a heroically bearded CIA spook saving hostages and American face in Iran (the film Argo); a heroically struggling agent tracking down Bin Laden (Zero Dark Thirty) and heroically flawed CIA operatives protecting America from mindless, perpetual terror (TV series Homeland).
Internationally, the mindless Global War On Terror has sullied the United States' unique image, diminished our ability to act as a positive force in the world, and redounded domestically to encroach seriously on our civil liberties.
Terror tactics and mindless ideology does not protect, but corrupts, traditional values.
I travelled up the Hawkesbury river in a small boat, and experienced the same terror they must have at the mindless force of water and wind.
Thus, Hart notes, Night was "a critique of the nuclear family"; Dawn, set in a Pittsburgh shopping mall, "satirized mindless American consumerism"; and Land is pretty clearly aimed at President George W. Bush's "war on terror".
What has not changed over the centuries is the profaneness of war; the frustration of returning to a society preoccupied with mindless vicarious thrill seeking, enthralled by "reality" shows; the loneliness one feels even in the midst of a crowd; the terror of the unexpected sight or sound or smell; the rage so easily triggered; and the profound disquiet of the wounded soul.
"Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror.
Mindless drinking.
Mindless yammer.
"Mindless chitchat.
Mindless Traditions.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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