Middle East: Machiavelli applied

Reigning over confusion:
Today we were discussing over breakfast with some colleagues about this bad quality Youtube upload that created rage over some Muslim countries. It appeared to us that, when looking at the comments that were published on the internet, it seemed more than just some isolated point of view for some brainless US citizen comfortably hiding in some Californian government house. The actors starting to talk about how the casting was made and the "movie" shot let you think that the intention was to create revolts in Muslims regions. Especially in countries like Libya or Syria where the American popularity was increasing greatly (the Libyan revolution was not helped directly by US troops, only by advising so the feeling of revolution ownership was kept by the Libyans and westerners really considered as support-only). Hence it really looks like that Youtube upload came at a good time to reverse the positive feeling of that Muslim community towards americans. You can even start to fantasize about the "movie" been founded by fundamentalists to hit on american's initiatives...

Ecology and Oilfields

Short post today, I just saw that article in the net through one of my tweeter font. I always said the move would come from the Oil and Gas industry and it seems I am right. The effort will come from the O&G industry as a epidermic reaction of survival. Though before it comes completely to that I'm afraid we might to pass through some rough times, as visibly Big Oil seems to eye with envy the Arctic regions (not without problems).

Religion and Power

Earlier this year I made a post about fundamentalism and education, in french. A humble attempt to explain why the non-educated were more prompt to fundamentalism and how the power-hungry were prone to explore, use and abuse that power. Really not a new concept, but it has ventilated some of my bitterness after the Arab Spring going somewhat not where people's freedom of expression would want it too (Arab Brothers in Tunisia, unfinished businesses of Mubarak's follower in Egypt). Before I can close this parenthesis, I spoke to one of my friend, tunisian man, explaining me how the actual regime is only temporary until they finish the new constitution. I felt something like a relief, I never saw the mix of religion and governance been a good mix (the Muslim Brothers been at the head of the temporary government). 

Anyway today's post comes after  something not quite the same, yet related. Earlier this month came out something on Youtube that one can not call a movie as it would be an insult to the lowest trashy internet porn that can claim the name of "movie". A sequence of pictures creating a motion, yet not qualifiable of the previous name has been uploaded in Youtube, whose link is here. Yet I feel reluctant to paste it simply because the author might take it as a compliment. Believe me if I could hang a man by his prides and use him as a piñata for a bunch of Toxteth - Liverpool - elementary school kids I'll chose the author of that trash. Those who lived in Liverpool will know exactly the sort of educated yummy little kids are growing down there ^_^!.

I thought and thought again of how a man can think to go up to release something like this. But I got it all wrong eventually.. the man did not think, or at least not using the same common grey cell and neurones we use, us common people. He must have used something different, something he believes God gave only to him to speak to the World and distribute his wholly words... If there was someone as close to that God in any realm here or there, I'd say he has a twisted sort of humour.

Let us call the person that uploaded that binary sequence on Youtube Mr D! D for dumbass, di#*¨!k, dork, douchebach (my oh my, so many fun words starting with d!!). So Mr. D woke up one fine day and thought his belief was so much better and superior than any other in this planet, he was soooo happy to have been able to finish the reader's digest version of the wholly book describing his true belief (the one book per year goal passed!!) and he feels like the World should know that THEY ARE WRONG!, the wholly book is right it's obvious, it's in the reader's digest! Mr. D, although almost capable to run a cashier at Walmart without forgetting them 6 packs the guy put on the moving carpet just after his Hustler magazine (hard to take the eyes out of it!! special edition of the X factor female drop off nudes, damn!!) he prefers the pride of a movie production company, it might pay as much (for him at least) but it's so much more fun. His real quality is being an outgoing guy... kind of  clever-errrrr-na! guy. To start his adventure he decides to go to other guys in the industry with money to spare and tell them he's going to do a movie, but not any movie, one that will talk about the Truth in a comic way for all to understand it, just like Chaplin did! And just like that (yeah, money flows for less, it seems, in USA movie industry!), after a couple of drink and siphoning some of these fundraisers pride he went on to the organization of his movie. HE want great actors, he thinks of BraJoly... and no!, nononono! we talk about holly, a woman full of tattoo??? yaik! but who would carry my message with such power?? And then it stroke him: actors don't matter, the message IS the power, it will carry itself! And it's cheaper so more money on the post prod and special FX. Next will be the screenplay, which he already has in his reader's digest, yet he needs more of a tale and that book is more a reflection... that drove him till late evening and to some places he did not think he would have gone otherwise: the bunny tavern!!!!!!!! My oh my where am I?? did he think. Then he met him: the man with the dodgy beard, he stinking breath but illuminating counselling. So Mr D. took his little notepad and his pencil and started to copy religiously all the wholly words the dodgy-beard-stinking-beard was saying. It was all there he could see it. His eyes full of recognition for such a fine screenplay been given to him, he left after tiping the man generously with a quarter that was hidden down the table (more money saved from spending for the rest of the movie!!! yeiiiiiiiii!). Now we can start filming! But according to the screenplay the movie happens in the middle east, how is Mr D supposed to go there with all the equipment, personnel, actors, accommodations (he did not trust the hotels there! people from a different belief). As he was sleeping on the problem, he made a dream of still pictures of the middle east and deserts... by the morning he had the solution. As for the actors, little mattered the place, what mattered was the message so he could just film the movie in his backyard with a blue background and then change for some nice facebook pictures of the places where the prophet lived (the real one!!). It seemed the movie was coming out quite economical eventually, he could spend a lot on advertising and that pleased him. So the movie went on and on, patiently baked like a juicy hot lemon pie. For weeks and weeks he worked endlessly, days and night, filming and filning again till all was perfect to his eyes. Then one day the movie was as he always dreamt it! Perfectly passing on the message to the World of the Real Profet, the real religion and revealing what impostors the others are. Vile usurpers and low living liers and thieves! Hours before going to the production studios and showing the movies to the World, he got paranoiac, scared to his bones: would they accept the truth? Badley Manning was emprisonned by the US government to reveal only government truth, what would it be if he release the Truth!!! public lapidation? torture with iron wips?? goats licking his toe fingers till he dies of exhaustion? Being a voluntary cashier at Walmart for life? Even worse: being sent to live a life of reclusion amongst the infidels!!!!!!! NO THAT CANNOT BE! Though the message must pass. Then again... someone must be speaking to his mind.. HIM? Yes it's obvious, Youtube, the freedom of speech and the company that helped infidels to diffuse their message, surely will accept the Truth to be told to Mankind. It was July 1st 2012 and the day after the World knew the Answer.... At least he thought of that. What? Nobody pays attention? The finest work ever since the Wholly Book and nobody celebrates it??? oh wait, what do I see? Libya? The infidels are in pain!!! they understood we know now! Poor ambassador, a collateral damage of the Truth envoy. But it matters not: DEATH TO THE INFIDELS!!!

That was a silly charicature of the person that uploaded that thing to Youtube. Just like Wyclef Jean would say: if I was president, I would make a point into prosecuting this person, whoever it is, along with the fund-raisers until I discover whose intention it was really. The person behind this knew of how aggressive the answer would be and never made that movie innocently. One can speak his mind out yes, but some things cannot be disclosed without spreading bloodshed because unfortunately the World is such, blame it on 60 years of bad geopolitics in the middle east. That's a good enough fuel for fury and usually fury always take the good people away. That ambassador and the staff never asked for it, probably enjoyed the cultural exchange and were doing their possible to work out a cement for better relationship between the 2 countries.

So I would prosecute the persons responsible for that upload, not for serving in prison but to pay a good fine of a couple of millions so that they wont use their money stupidly again and give it to international NGOs that work in education and also in the middle east region. Because the people that killed the ambassador and the staff should not have done that but it's not their fault if they don't have the education to understand that violence does not eradicate stupidity. So I would give resources to these NGOs to educate as many children and adults as possible so that critical thinking can be divulged and fundamentalism diffused.

What do you guys say?

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