Kony ‘will be arrested this year’

[Alamuti Lotus]

13. there's a phrase for this sort of thing -- "a *little* knowledge is a dangerous thing"

some people hear something on Youtube or whatever, now they're suddenly all fucking experts about it with the zeal of a convert. complete absence of any kind of historical context or the like, but it feels good and, and, and, how can you not feel the same and as strongly as they do? what kind of monster are you? bah. amateurs.


and I'm annoyed that I even feel any sort of compulsion to add this 'disclaimer' -- not that Kony should be nominated for sainthood or whatever, but in the league with Hitler & Osama or whatever else? pure propaganda. The current dictator of Uganda, Musaveni, is no saint himself and probably deserves some of this very same attention for the war crimes his pro-US regime is committing in the Congo and Somalia, but that's not even being talked about--which is really a microcosm of the genius of modern propaganda.