January 7, 2015: Twelve cartoonists, staff and police security are massacred at the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, by gunmen who say they are from Al Qaeda and are there to avenge the Prophet Mohammed. So the story goes.
There are people who swallowed the story whole, as is. They're busy expressing their solidarity with the victims, tempered by concerns that Charlie Hebdo's free expression may have been just a little too free. It's a prelude to more restrictions on speech, both self-imposed and imposed by the State, and more global surveillance and control.
There won't be any pictures of the actual carnage, assuming there was some, which of course we can't do. No, like images of war, that would be too insensitive, too shocking to the senses. Meanwhile, fake carnage is everywhere, especially in video game form, so it feels like you're actually doing the killing -- all the simulated carnage you can eat is encouraged in the New Living Satire.
To put it brutally, like the brutal picture painted by David Dees, it's another worldwide mindfuck.
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Charlie Hebdo and the
New Living Satire of the 21st Century
By Ginny Stoner | nworeporter.com
Image by David Dees | deesillustration.com
January 13, 2015