On 26-Sep-05, at 3:59 AM, Hermann Janzen wrote:
Dream last night. Talking to some elderly Russian Jews (immigrants
like me).
They seemed to be the only ones to understand my ramblings. The
stupid Americans
(especially here) have no sense at all what life is all about. Saw a
piece of another
interview with George Galloway yesterday. Partly about a debate with
Hitchens at
a Jewish institution in Brooklyn. Americans seem to have no sense at
all about the
fanaticism that is driving the oil plutocrats behind Bush. Galloway:
If Bush hadn't
met with such fierce resistance in Iraq, American troops would be
sitting in Tehran
and in Damascus by now. The point that only the Russian Jews
understood had to
do with my difficulties of adjusting from the environment of a
boarding school in
post-war Germany to the savagery of American society, where the rich
have no
compunction about exploiting the poor, and indeed exploiting the rest
of the world,
to the hilt. Galloway also: the nexus between Israeli dealings with
the Palestinians
and US atrocities in the Arab world. (The interviewer: Ken
Rock[well] on cpac).
On the matter of the dream itself, I remember very little beyond a
sympathetic
feeling of understanding that seemed to emanate from those people.
Why was that
feeling of understanding so important? Perhaps part of carrying on
with the enquiry.
Of moving forward. Why Russian Jews? I meet them at the Academy.
They are
more in tune with me.
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