To expand on Moms Mabley's sentiments, though not as succinctly: stay tuned for the mass-media tsunami of adulatory glurge for Kissinger.
The US overclass and its mass-media allies and servants promote compulsive posthumous hyper-hagiography of dubious public figures, especially politicians and their high-ranking ministers and advisors.
I first took notice of this pathological response when former President Richard M. Nixon died in 1994. Although I was still mired in the conventional progressive-liberal mindset, I was astonished at the public reaction– or at least the mass-media Team Coverage– of Nixon’s death and funeral.
The transformation of Nixon from nominally-disgraced “crook” to a Great, if “flawed”, Amerikan was instantaneous, and startling. I didn’t go out of my way to watch and read the mainstream media reports, but I couldn’t help being exposed to some of it by osmosis.
Even then, I wasn’t surprised that fork-tongued politicians glibly and blithely praised the deceased Nixon. But I was amazed when celebrities of all stripes, and even the “journalists” and correspondents covering the funeral, joined in the effusive hagiography.
I wondered if perhaps a different Richard M. Nixon was being laid to rest; I didn’t recognize the one being lionized.
Speaking of “flawed”, when titans like Nixon and Kissinger pass away the media coverage does take note of their darker sides– a bone tossed to critics and detractors without spoiling the overall adulatory mood. But it’s usually with a hushed and reverent gloss, e.g. “some say” that they were war criminals or scoundrels– but “at the end of the day” it’s universally acknowledged that, whatever their flaws and failures, they were Great Men.
More recently, John McCain’s long-anticipated death prompted a fawning orgy of adulation orders of magnitude greater than the seemingly-spontaneous rehabilitation of Nixon in 1994.
Former President George H.W. Bush’s demise prompted the same contrived overreaction. It’s worth noting that, like the elevation of self-serving charlatan and war-criminal McCain to quasi-divine status in death, the overweening praise for Bush was exacerbated by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). That is, much of the bloated praise for Bush pointedly commended Bush’s “presidential” demeanor, and contrasted Bush’s putative “dignity” and “resolve” with Trump’s crass, freewheeling style.
It’s one thing to believe in the vaguely superstitious precept that one must not speak ill of the dead, in the name of civility, good manners, and perhaps pious sympathy or respect for the deceased’s surviving family and friends.
But the baseless unconditional positive regard that is de rigueur in the US is an artifact of its febrile, surrealistic, decadent culture. Of course, the political class exacerbates and exploits this smarmy sentimentality to further its self-serving interests. ⚰ 😠
Kissinger is loving this, even in his hell, a place he will enjoy with his buds -- Epstein, Edward Bernays, Oppenheimer, well, let's just hpe they have to watch a grainy copy of Fiddler on the Roof over and over with Palestine will Be Free playing in the background:
Oh those non-Zionist Jews (really?@#$%) and those Zionist Jews and those cross bearing Zionists, oh, they are wishing Kissigner many many centuries of fun with a thousand children, on Epstein's Island.
"US Congress declares anti-Zionism is equal to anti-Semitism -- That would be true ONLY if human rights crimes are an inherent feature of Jewishness. Is that the message Congress is trying to convey to us? Do they know there are anti-Zionist Jews? What are they?
excellent to the point discussion. thanks.
To expand on Moms Mabley's sentiments, though not as succinctly: stay tuned for the mass-media tsunami of adulatory glurge for Kissinger.
The US overclass and its mass-media allies and servants promote compulsive posthumous hyper-hagiography of dubious public figures, especially politicians and their high-ranking ministers and advisors.
I first took notice of this pathological response when former President Richard M. Nixon died in 1994. Although I was still mired in the conventional progressive-liberal mindset, I was astonished at the public reaction– or at least the mass-media Team Coverage– of Nixon’s death and funeral.
The transformation of Nixon from nominally-disgraced “crook” to a Great, if “flawed”, Amerikan was instantaneous, and startling. I didn’t go out of my way to watch and read the mainstream media reports, but I couldn’t help being exposed to some of it by osmosis.
Even then, I wasn’t surprised that fork-tongued politicians glibly and blithely praised the deceased Nixon. But I was amazed when celebrities of all stripes, and even the “journalists” and correspondents covering the funeral, joined in the effusive hagiography.
I wondered if perhaps a different Richard M. Nixon was being laid to rest; I didn’t recognize the one being lionized.
Speaking of “flawed”, when titans like Nixon and Kissinger pass away the media coverage does take note of their darker sides– a bone tossed to critics and detractors without spoiling the overall adulatory mood. But it’s usually with a hushed and reverent gloss, e.g. “some say” that they were war criminals or scoundrels– but “at the end of the day” it’s universally acknowledged that, whatever their flaws and failures, they were Great Men.
More recently, John McCain’s long-anticipated death prompted a fawning orgy of adulation orders of magnitude greater than the seemingly-spontaneous rehabilitation of Nixon in 1994.
Former President George H.W. Bush’s demise prompted the same contrived overreaction. It’s worth noting that, like the elevation of self-serving charlatan and war-criminal McCain to quasi-divine status in death, the overweening praise for Bush was exacerbated by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). That is, much of the bloated praise for Bush pointedly commended Bush’s “presidential” demeanor, and contrasted Bush’s putative “dignity” and “resolve” with Trump’s crass, freewheeling style.
It’s one thing to believe in the vaguely superstitious precept that one must not speak ill of the dead, in the name of civility, good manners, and perhaps pious sympathy or respect for the deceased’s surviving family and friends.
But the baseless unconditional positive regard that is de rigueur in the US is an artifact of its febrile, surrealistic, decadent culture. Of course, the political class exacerbates and exploits this smarmy sentimentality to further its self-serving interests. ⚰ 😠
Kissinger is loving this, even in his hell, a place he will enjoy with his buds -- Epstein, Edward Bernays, Oppenheimer, well, let's just hpe they have to watch a grainy copy of Fiddler on the Roof over and over with Palestine will Be Free playing in the background:
https://youtu.be/foSbqLi6U10?si=BOJT8WtIzUcCq8bo
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Oh those non-Zionist Jews (really?@#$%) and those Zionist Jews and those cross bearing Zionists, oh, they are wishing Kissigner many many centuries of fun with a thousand children, on Epstein's Island.
"US Congress declares anti-Zionism is equal to anti-Semitism -- That would be true ONLY if human rights crimes are an inherent feature of Jewishness. Is that the message Congress is trying to convey to us? Do they know there are anti-Zionist Jews? What are they?