I agree. But watching a football or hockey game tells us a lot about
what we are and what we may have work hard to resolve.
Ed
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Perhaps better that people work out their aggressions both from
the stands and on the field in this way. Better than going to war
and/or throwing bombs at each other. This may be a socially
adaptive process that deals with aggressive behavior.
arthur
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Nice 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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