At 9:29 AM -0800 2/3/03, Karen Watters Cole wrote:
Americans are weary from economic loss and anxiety, still in shock from 9/11 and alarmed about further terrorism, more suspicious after corporate scandals, increasingly jealous of the vigor in the military-industrial-technology complex, while facing a dreary private and public work life as consumers in the cogs of the wheel of free market capitalism.
Hi Karen,
I keep hearing and I believe I understand how Americans are
feeling. Would it be fair to say that the Iraqi people are likely to
be significantly more weary from economic loss and anxiety, still in
shock from the gulf war and the sanctions and regular bombings since
then and very alarmed about further terrorism (the pentagon's 'shock
and awe' cruise missle attacks for day one of the pending
war)...
I think you get my point.
Nel Noddings, a philosopher at Stanford University, wrote in an
essay "Ethics and the Imagination" that the Arts, and
literature in particular, should be taught in such a way as to have
students be able to ask and feel what other people are going
through.
Perhaps that is why the UN in New York has covered Picasso's
Guernica. (see my posting sent early this morning) They must not want
any empathetic feelings being stirred as Powell beats the war drums on
Wednesday.
Take care,
Brian
