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Show Acting Alone Page 390 ignorance of the true significance of what they are destroying. Too unsophisticated, innocent and uninformed to grasp the strategic importance of preserving the complex foreign-built computers, transceivers and radar transponders they are so thoroughly smashing and burnings the boys have carried out this successful assault purely for the sake of what could almost be called a rudimentary esthetic Instinct, a kind of folk-sensitivity to cosmetic propriety: they have stricken out not against any specific political philosophy, but against the mere appearance of foreignness. These pure farm-babies' primitive instincts of right-look and wrong-look have effected the redemption of the entire Western way of life. A sobering lesson is taught to all those xenophiles who embrace things un-American, who love PBS more than the PTL Network, who believe that the "human face" of the rest of the world, including the Soviet bloc, is fundamentally indistinguishable from our own. Now, the moral condition of the news-media being what it is, one could without fear of being overly pessimistic assume that this Great Battle would be presented to the public in such a way as to play down the seriousness of the vanquished threat, and to play up, as it were, the savagery and thoughtlessness of the church boys. The media could be relied upon to cynically insinuate the presence of some outside force among the good farm youths, a charismatic political agitator/theorist without whose rabid instigation they would've simply stayed home sodomizing livestock - or some such nauseating detail that someone like Norman Mailer could be expected to extrapolate from his own twisted libido. This should be an indication to the far-sighted that some mode of presentation other than the Jew-controlled news-media should |