Tony Blair blows goats. I have proof
It’s good to see politicians getting interested in Theory, but I’d rather Bush and Blair had choosen to read someone other than Baudrillard. That being said, the pro-war party’s increasingly stark rejection of any distinction between truth and fiction is at least amusing. Consider, for example, Jack Straw on the Today programme yesterday, complaining about the Iraqi resistance who are apparently shooting British and American troops in order to prevent the end of the occupation. See also Tony Blair’s speech a couple of days back about how the people demanding elections in Iraq are enemies of democracy.
It’s a clever trick, I suppose: as people get more pissed off that the war in Iraq was sold to them on a load of lies, the liars respond by effectively saying “if you didn’t like those lies, here are some bigger and better ones.� So, it seems, exposing lies is no longer an effective political tool (if it ever was…). All is not lost, though; we just need to change tactics. If the homicide bombers in government have embraced the hyper-real, let’s bring the battle to that terrain. This actually plays into our hands, because we can now choose to confront Bush, Blair and Berlusconi on any issue that takes our fancy. Let’s start manufacturing sex scandals, dark rumours of corrupt business practices, revelations of past drug use, mafia connections, and so on. A systematic campaign of lies directed against the ruling class. Why not?
The whole point of ideology is that they get to control what’s true. By saying that Iraq has not been liberated or that capitalism is not the only possible social and economic system, we are by definition lying. So we always change the world by lying; let’s go with that, and start making up as much shit as possible.
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