War, like any other action, requires a narrative to sustain it. Those who commented are telling a story to themselves, the purpose of which is to justify their own convictions. Mike Smith has become a character in that story for each of its tellers. He has been fictionalized and fragmented, because the story is not about him- it is about the tellers of the tales themselves, and their relationship to the world. It is one more way in which truth is the first casualty in a war- or at least in the story I tell about it. Maybe the only fundamental truth in any story is the one implicit in the existence of the story itself: that the human mind cannot tolerate uninterpreted events.
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Date: 2005-01-14 01:22 am (UTC)