The View Hole is a blogging project collaborating youtube clips and streaming documentaries which aim to highlight the current advancements and challenges faced by an ever evolving species, and an ever expanding 'Global Village.'

When we lived in tribes and villages over the horizon were secret lands and mysterious people never before seen, and as we ventured forth establishing connections with the rest of our species and our world, the horizons gave up their secrets, and our villages grew to nations.

Now, in this modern age; when what's beyond the horizon is already in our living rooms, on our tv screens and computer monitors, Something new begins.
We are no longer but a collection of nations, we are at a stage of transition, becoming what is termed a "Global Village"

The View Hole aims to shine a light on the challenges faced by the species at the heart of this cultural evolution. Man.

From the standard model of particle physics and global educational paradigms to sociological engineering and human evolution, The View Hole links to material which questions the form and function of modern science and society.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

John Pilger - The War You Don't See.


The War You Don't See

Accompanied blurb:
The new film [The War You Don't See] is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?
John Pilger says in the film: "We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power."
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