Intentional Ignorance
Warrick Kemp (b 1968)
Intentional Ignorance
Bronze - Edition of 6
Height: 35,5 cm
R59 000
The masters of our world have produced an amnesiac society; a population detached from the realities of this world. History is engineered to make the truth unknown; when the public accepts this, the government, or the ‘men of best quality’, can intervene in world affairs to their benefit and call it ‘noble intent’.
Illegal attacks on sovereign states have become an accepted practise; examples are the 1981 bombing of the Osirak reactor in Iraq by Israel, and the retaking of Panama in 1989 under US president, George H.W. Bush, in ‘Operation Just Cause’. After such action, a ‘new norm’ of international law is established. A ‘justified’ reason then needs to be fed to the public; this is easily effected by misinformation, supported by media networks that package opinions and deliver them like prime time ‘reality shows’.