Thursday  the Twentieth of March, 2003

"The Nation As Person metaphor is pervasive, powerful, and part of an elaborate metaphor system. It is part of an International Community metaphor, in which there are friendly nations, hostile nations, rogue states, and so on. This metaphor comes with a notion of the national interest: Just as it is in the interest of a person to be healthy and strong, so it is in the interest of a Nation-Person to be economically healthy and militarily strong. That is what is meant by the 'national interest'."
Metaphor and war; the propagandistic construction of Nation-as-Person metaphors, to be slotted into (rather simplistic, but admittedly I am still reading this) archetypal mythic narratives, to help the masses understand which ones the baddies are. [via Joh]  ]
Eh, waking up with a lurching awareness that Bush probably declared something or other during the night isn't good, but it's better than being woken up by air raid sirens. Guttingly absurd that Terror and Oppression are being fought with Shock and Awe, that the proper show-off bombing is presumably going to kick off tonight, whether or not a lookalike's stepped in.  ]

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