MEMBER BLOG TAG: anya ulinich
| Monday, April 27, 2009 6:36PM | | | | Swine Flu, Any One? (Fear Itself) | Tags: PEN America 10: Fear Itself, Lou Reed, swine flu, The Language of Fear, World Voices 2009, Guillermo Fadanelli, Anya Ulinich
| | | BREAKING NEWS: The Statue of Liberty has swine flu. Evacuate New York. Punish the Mexicans. And let's all OVERREACT ... please!
Yes, here we go again. Fear is back. It never becomes unfashionable, does it? Fear sells newspapers, and now we're all supposed to stop traveling. Europeans should stay in Europe, Americans should stay in America, and nobody should travel to Mexico because swine flu is going to do us in!
I doubt it but maybe it will. Perhaps swine flu is going to b blamed for every death in the US the next twelve months. It might surpass our fear of terrorist attacks and erectile dysfunction. All You Need Is Fear - isn't that what John Lennon sang... | | | | | |
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