Ipod - Iraq
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the other thing that is nice about using the ipod, is that it references the coccoon of entertainment that we use to plug our ears to what's really going on.
You see all these people rocking out to their Ipods oblivious to the world around them in their own private universes, unaffected and unaware of the world around them. What a great metaphor for the way America has insulated itself from the terrorism we are enacting in Iraq.
It also discusses the economic divide between the tortured Iraqi's and the privileged, entertainment obsessed bourgeious America that is benefiting economically from this war.
If only the detainees could enjoy the latest Coldplay album while they are being tortured, maybe they too could be oblivious to the world around them.