Pessimism and Propaganda

Utterly lost, our foreign policy is beholden to popular mandate – the heartstrings must be pulled, uh, ahem, I mean certain heartstrings must be pulled in certain ways.  Propaganda is set to the key of popular sentiment.  So sad that this has always been the story.  Do we need atrocity?  Yes, we need atrocity.  But we, the atrocity-seekers, are blind and we grasp out, needing to feel and to understand but ultimately going about our lives uncomprehending.  42 dead in an American strike on an MSF hospital, sure we will talk about it but, no, don’t concern yourselves with it you blind people.  No, that was not an atrocity and unfortunately (or fortunately?) you can’t say the hindsight of the blind is 20/20, no, their look backwards is the same as their current outlook, besmirched forever by the staining splash of bullshit, lives lived on the edge of the propaganda river with filthy cataracts, confusing eddies.  Lives lived comfortably nevertheless.