{"id":6091,"date":"2012-07-04T17:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2012-12-11T17:13:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T16:13:59","slug":"there-is-still-a-lot-of-game-of-thrones-around-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=6091","title":{"rendered":"There is still a lot of Game of Thrones around us"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are in Sagaponack, NY.\u00a0<\/span>Nina<\/a>,\u00a0Leo and Mia went to see the Southampton 4th of July parade. I am sick in bed with a bad summer flu. \u00a0I stayed in bed watching a Game of Thrones<\/a> marathon. I am on Season 2 Episode 4. I almost never watch TV but I do enjoy TV series. \u00a0I watch them mostly during flights off my iPad. And now because I am sick and can’t stop coughing I watch them in bed. \u00a0By now, I have probably watched over 10 hours of Game of Thrones over the last 3 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Game of Thrones has a great deal of sex and people talk about that, but sex is nothing compared to the amount of violence it depicts. A violence that it is at the limit of what I can stomach, as when they kill a baby off a woman’s arm. But the story is good and I am hooked. At this point anything that makes me forget my flu is welcome. Still, I suffer as I watch the most violent scenes. When I watch these horrors, I remember the child in myself saying, this is just a movie, this is just a movie. \u00a0But then, during a break I read the news. The real news.\u00a0 And I see this<\/a>. \u00a0A very Game of Thrones real life story going on right now in Syria as Bashar Al Assad<\/a> tries to stay on his throne and goes on a killing rampage. Reuters reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Video clips showed rotting corpses lying in dried pools of blood in dark hallways, their faces covered with flies. One showed a woman and her child prone in a living room. The activist narrating the video said they had been stabbed.<\/em><\/p>\n

A third video displayed pieces of charred flesh which activists said were severed genitals.<\/em><\/p>\n

“There was more here yesterday,” said a man wearing plastic gloves.” “But the dogs were taking them.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So now my defenses stopped working.\u00a0 I think about what is going on in Syria, a country I visited in 2003 and found it quite attractive.\u00a0 Here are my pictures of that trip<\/a>. I can’t imagine how those who appear in them are doing now in this horrible civil war.\u00a0 Why would Bashar al Assad, a man who trained to be an ophtalmologist in London and his wife<\/a> Asma al-Assad who was born and raised in the UK and has a degree in computer science go on murder rampages to stay in power?<\/p>\n

There is still a lot of Game of Thrones around us. The middle ages are still here.<\/p>\n

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We are in Sagaponack, NY.\u00a0Nina,\u00a0Leo and Mia went to see the Southampton 4th of July parade. I am sick in bed with a bad summer flu. \u00a0I stayed in bed watching a Game of Thrones marathon. I am on Season 2 Episode 4. I almost never watch TV but I do enjoy TV series. \u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[293,592],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","tag-society","tag-syria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t