MessageNice thoughts, Natalia, but I'm afraid we are what we are. Could I
indeed share my meditations with beasts like Hitler or Stalin or with all those
butchers who escalated simple ideas into profound human tragedies? I don't
think so. Again, we are what we are.
Having nothing better to do, I watched the Rose Bowl game yesterday. At one
level of interpretation, that of the huge crowd watching from the stands, it
was a demonstration of supreme athletic skill. At another level, it had to be
seen as formalized brutality. Young male hominids rushing at each other,
attempting to crush each other. Or take hockey, in which fist-fights and
injuries are "part of the game". We are what we are, and there are many people
on this earth with whom I would rather not be connected.
But do have a good year.
Ed
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Believing we are all connected can be both a matter of faith and a matter of
science. When individuals share such stories, we know we are all part of one
experience. Thank you, Ray.
May we all collectively direct our meditations towards a better nurtured and
educated future world. May we realize that our lack of confidence to overcome
such injustice is but arrogantly imagined--that we, in fact, do not expect
enough of our ability to effect change. With a unified vision, we can reclaim
sanity, restore and eventually leave a world we proudly leave to our children.
To all, a healthy New Year, replete with the grace and vitality of a healing
world.
Natalia
On 1/1/2011 4:56 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
This is what it's all about. When I was in college, the ministers in the
Presbyterian churches in Tulsa, Oklahom would preach about how the news always
spoke of American dead and that others were less important and that this was
wrong! In a nation that parades religion around as a requirement for office,
there is bloody little listening to it.
Thank you Natalia for this statement. In 1994 I directed a Gypsy Carmen
that was about the Gypsy Holocaust during WWII [at LaMama theater here in New
York City]. I kept a picture of bodies at the base of a waterfall in Rwanda
in the front of my score, floating like logs, to remind me that it was and
would continue in the fabric of humanity. Later it would be a child in Iraq
during the American Master's Arts Festival. From Vietnam, and my friend Kim
Phuc running down the road screaming from the Napalm, to the present time when
the agent orange still ravages the newborns of Vietnam we seem stuck in a
pattern of horror unbelieved and unimagined. When America invaded Iraq, Kim
sat in the corner of a Catskill mountain cabin and said "I can't believe
they're doing it again" as she wept bitterly. That was the last time I saw
Kim. Thank you again Mike and Natalia for your truth.
REH
It makes blood boil for anyone who has toiled through the reports of
collateral damage of about 5 million Iraqis, which includes over one million
dead, 1million plus widows, and 4.5 million displaced. No infrastructure,
little food or potable water, and depleted uranium soil for half a million
years to come. The innocents arrested and tortured, whose numbers so far
outweigh the numbers killed on 9/11 by non-Iraqis, that one has no choice but
to conclude the US doesn't give a damn about collateral damage. Nor do the sick
soldiers who execute these atrocities, nor do any of the Americans who
supported this war. No one is so stupid as to think that the loss was entirely
American, and where there remains such posturing, I'm sure it could be
permanently scared out of them with a little bit of America's own
water-boarding treatments. America and her government had this coming, for the
sake of accountability, just as all other potentially damaging leaks change the
playing field to one of greater need for responsible actions. The internet is
being used responsibly where governments, military and industry are trying to
keep secret their blundering and misguided dealings.
Media, most often controlled, is looking bad and irresponsible too, and
rightly so. Just for Iraq alone they should have lost their jobs. And still,
having today realized how swept up they became in Bush's bandwagon to wealth,
they would never have the nerve to do what Assange did in any format. If not
Assange, then who? Neither government, military nor Multi-National would ever
risk such openness because integrity is what the wage earners are supposed to
possess, not the world leaders. Certainly not those in media we hope will at
least expose profit in deceit.
Natalia
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