re: #546 b_sharp

We’ve fooled the world. Except those who watch us play hockey.

Bah, hockey! You guys make a sport and a big deal outta the kind of mindless brutality that marks ever snowy day in the States.

I recall PJ O’Rourke, on the eve of the 1st Persian gulf War, proposing that we broadcast footage of the Watts Riots, the celebrations after major sports victories, the Rodney King Riots, and all the rest of it to the Iraqis, with the words “This is what we do to ourselves, in peacetime; imagine what we’ll do to YOU in a war” underneath, as a sort of psyops.