on meme
I saw this headline on the front page yesterday’s late edition of the Oregonian, sitting there in the box.
With my usual craned neck, my reaction was a “Um… Yeah… and?” Through the past — nearly two years now — I’ve pondered that meme, and what can be done to destroy it. Unfortunately, there is no destroying a meme. Memes are insiduous, and become facts to the minds of those who have said meme lodged in their brain. (It’s difficult to shake the cobwebs and dislodge a number from my own brain.)
I can’t remember who it was, but a few weeks ago a Big Named National Right-wing commentator asks the question — to me I guess, “And will you be able to admit your mistake when it turns out that the Weapons of Mass Destruction were moved to Syria?” The answer, my friend, is a simple: “Uh… WTF?”
What the world needs now is another newsmax.com and “DEBKA Files” Report about Iraq’s neighbors harboring Saddam’s stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction…
A new one– or rehashed from through some “back-up” “information”– that’s haunting us, this one seemingly backed up by some government spokesperson into the mainstream media — a report and study shows that the Insurgency is, indeed, still Saddam Loyalists… a concept that doesn’t… make… any… logical… sense.