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<blockquote>To anyone acquainted with the [[reality]] of the US way of [[life]], the photos immediately brought to [[mind]] the [[obscene underside]] of US [[popular culture]]- for example, the initiatic [[rituals]] of [[torture]] and [[humiliation]] one has to undergo in [[order]] to be accepted into a closed [[community]].<BR><BR>[...]<BR><BR>The Abu Graib tortures are thus to be located in the series of [[obscene]] underground practices that sustain an [[ideological]] edifice. <BR><BR>[...]<BR><BR>While [the Abu Ghraib tortures] cannot be reduced to simple [[evil]] [[acts]] by [[individual]] soldiers, they were of course also not directly ordered - they were legitimized by a specific version of the obscene "[[Code Red]]" rules. This is why the assurance from US [[Army]] command that no "direct [[orders]]" were issued to humiliate and torture the prisoners is ridiculous: of course they were not, since, as everyone who [[knows]] army life is aware, this is not how such things are done. There are no [[formal]] orders, [[nothing]] is written, there is just unofficial pressure, hints and directives are delivered in private, the way one shares a dirty [[secret]]...<BR><BR>[...] <BR><BR>Abu Ghraib was not simply a [[case]] of American arrogance toward a [[Third|THird]] [[World]] [[people]]: in [[being]] submitted to humiliating tortures, the IRaqi prisoners were in effect ''initiated into American [[culture]]'', they got the taste of its obscene underside which forms the necessary [[supplement]] to the [[public]] values of personal dignity, [[democracy]] and [[freedom]].<ref>[[Zizek|Žižek, Slavoj]]. [[The Parallax View]]. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2006. p.367-372</ref></blockquote><BR><BR>
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