NO WAR IN SYRIA....IT'S OFFICIAL (MAYBE)

Unfairly banned from his YouTube page but still mind-jamming the internet from his back-up page, Andy Nowicki considers the (im)possibility of real war in Syria from the bottom of an extremely deep well of public cynicism.

THE GNOSTIC KNIGHT RISES

by Andy Nowicki

Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight," the acclaimed middle chapter of his Batman trilogy, asked its viewers to consider whether it might sometimes be permissible to promulgate blatant, factual untruth as a means toward achieving a righteous end.

That film sicced Heath Ledger's harrowing Joker on audiences, portraying the perpetually grinning clown-villain not merely as a venal and murderous criminal (a la Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman"), but rather as a kind of festering human plague with no discernible agenda except to foment general chaos and expose the mass of humanity as essentially loathsome, their proclaimed morality and ethics a mere hypocritical veneer beneath which lurks nothing but a repulsively bestial core.