There is war all over the Middle East and the scars of collapsed empires are opening up again with the ugly pus and ideological stain of war spilling out along all manner of fault lines. In the blur of modern culture the flicker of the new war is just another blip in our frazzled minds.
Mass media has always been a series of flash bomb images and chaos and a collage of the images of war, but in the past few years it’s been getting faster and weirder and blood has become the modern currency. Not so much a New World Order but a new world war that was rumbling in the distance but is now coming towards us. It’s like the phoney war in 1914 before the bloodbath in the trenches, but it’s being played out with an exaggerated insanity and at a fast forward, helter-skelter speed that means that we have entered World War Three without even noticing. Random terrorism, a mass refugee crisis, out of control, insane, idealogical zealots with sophisticated and deadly weapons, old nation states with their war machines polished and ready to go and a fractured and a desperate world economy – have we stumbled into a world war without even realising it? A world where celebrities gurn and world leaders dance the modern dance and the gods have been perverted, have we arrived at the end game without anyone’s permission?
In a blur of the mass hypnosis of the X Factor modern world. Has it already started without us noticing?