Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
>
> Aliens!
>
> REH
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:19 PM
> Subject: RE: To survive or not to survive.
>
> > Arthur,
> >
> > You are probably too right about this.
> >
> > From where outside will succor come?
[snip]
But where will the aliens come from?
If the nth-order aliens that will ultimately save us
were autochthonous to their place of origin, then why
cannot our solution be autochthonous to us?
If not us, who?
If not now, when?
It's somewhat similar to us sacrificing for "future generations":
We *are* a future generation, so we should "get ours" *as well
as* adding value for the next present generation.
It was the unreconstructed Nazi (who also happened to be
a great philosopher...) Martin Heidegger, who said:
"Only a god can save us." (ca. 1980)
[The reason Heidegger broke with the Nazis apparently was that
Hitler did not appreciate that he, Hitler,
needed to learn the true meaning of National Socialism
from Heidegger.]
As for "aliens", they are a good way for not treating
other human beings as *radically other* but rather as
"human resources", "people" (the collective noun, as opposed
to a number of unique individuals), etc.
...the healer walks in the most unlikely guise
and may even be the casual passerby now crossing the street --
for wherever he walks, whether in the turmoil of city
street or in the light of evening fields, his road
is the road to Zion and yet the road we must all take; his
journey is a search for the fordable passage between
the evil of the irrational and the evil of the super-rational,
and his freedom is the anguished freedom of duty....
(--Hermann Broch, _The Sleepwalkers_, p.647)
Let X=X. You know, it might be you.
(--Laurie Anderson)
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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