“the revolution will not be televised” sung the late, great Gil Scott-Heron.
It will be on your iPhone, though.
© jfreos
Gaddafi just doesn’t get it. Disconnected literally and metaphorically. The paucity of his awareness of this momentous shift in communications will be his undoing. His reasoning is “they’re all crazy”. But where are your clothes, emperor? All too recently rehabilitated and propped up again by the bastardly B’s – Bliar and Berlusconi, with their spooky and suspect Libyan shenanigans. Carnage in the present moment, meted out by Gaddafi’s interior troops and mercenaries; victims of Lockerbie lurking in the shadows of our consciousness.
The blindspot for Gaddafi today – the rapidly diminishing effectiveness of dictatorial social power dynamics in the face of increasingly ubiquitous digital media. Just before Christmas, a BBC correspondent reported from a busy Kabul street , describing the smart phone as “The Swiss Army Knife of the 21st C”. Only months later, change sweeping North Africa and the Middle East makes this pocket knife seem more like a sophisticated, nuanced battering ram – an animate object.
An antidote to tyranny.
the interpretOr 
the same problem has happened with this monster as happened with other monsters who have died before facing the consequences.
he has died his way out of it and escaped the dock.
so the retinue and administration and enablers who helped perpetrate the regime dissolve into the background and knowlege of that perpetration is veiled.
things like family members finding out what happened to their disappeared loved ones.
like what happened to the wealth that belongs to the sovereign state of Libya.
the work of picking up the pieces and putting the nation back together is just beginning.
Go for it Libya.
indeed and vb j