Time to simmer down. The problems of the world are one thing. My
problems
are another. The outer may reflect the inner and vice versa, but my
arena must
always remain the inner. The outer is not unimportant. For that is
the field where
we practice our language, and test our language. Where our language
becomes
our test. The test of our honesty. That's the reason why the pseudo's
avoid the
outer like the plague. Their language would be exposed in all its sly
treachery.
Here they're all gummed together in their sticky usages. No need to
seek them
out. Their need to proselytize will drive them back across my range
sooner that
I could wish for. The killing is going back in high gear both in
Israel and in Iraq.
Hurricanes only provide a brief respite. Now all the attention is
swinging back
to governmentally organized killing. Should I not return to my own
issues? Yes,
surely I should. But the state of the world takes my breath away and I
can't shut
it down so easily. Is there no good news? Yes, there is in Canada.
But Canada
is only a small side show. And soon it will yield again to the
pressures of world
politics. Best I leave the keyboard and get into my exercises and get
ready for
my other agenda. Tone down the hysteria, which isn't really hysteria.
But
enough. (pause) Bush babies infest this site like dust mites.
On 28-Sep-05, at 12:35 AM, Hermann Janzen wrote:
One American who's not stupid is Barack Obama, Senator for Illinois.
Thank god, he's beginning to gain more access to tv. He's utterly
uncanny
in his use of language. Better than Seymor Hirsh, better than Noam
Chompsky.
He can talk his way out of any clumsy question put to him and
construct answers
that present the most constructive context for workable solutions to
America's
problems. He can construct answers that expose all the devious bloody-
mindedness of the administration without using any language that
becomes
actionable for the enemy. When will he be assassinated? The oil
oligarchs will
not sit back long. The America that is now in power cannot tolerate
such a man
and they will get him. He cannot be sidelined, like Hirsh or
Chompsky; besides
he's black and thus ripe for extermination. Perhaps I'll hold my
private funeral
for him before his time is up. That way he may escape the henchmen of
the
administration in Washington. But they will surely cripple him,
poison his food.
They cannot afford to let him live. He'd destroy all their
credibility, their
damnable deniability (Reagan's proud coinage). John Roberts, his chief
minion, soon to be installed as chief of the Supreme Court. What a
country!
Who will weep for humanity, now that k isn't around to weep for us.
On 27-Sep-05, at 8:22 AM, Hermann Janzen wrote:
More stupid Americans. As if I had a right to expect anything else.
Their
intention flagged by the sloppiness of their text presentations.
Marked contrast
between gv's first and second post. First civilized, second ornery.
Good to note
the difference. It's the only difference worth noting. More dreams
too. But now
all forgotten. The Academy (Tony yesterday) a disappointment. But
I'll stay for
a while. I think the contact is something worth monitoring. It
brings a bit of
discipline, but not too much. I can always drop out later. There is
an echo in
this room, as if I was addressing some nervous tick within. If there
is a nervous
tick within, it's probably good to address it. Most likely it's
picking up on some
external malice slinking from ambush to ambush. Calls from Heather
and Gus
to hold me steady. More important perhaps the calls I make to those
in need of
support. Soon I must also move on the Galloway issue. At least not
let it drop
out of sight. Can I get back to serious questions? A quote may help.
Look at resistance. Look into the eyes of resistance. It's me.
Resistance
and enquiry are natural play mates. They love to tussle and romp
around
together. It the healthiest exercise ever devised for the brain.
It's not peace,
not beauty, not all that. But it's the best I can do. So do it -
here and not here.
It's that movement between enquiry and resistance that needs to
remain my
primary arena of observation. It's also that observation that
stirred the nasty
Americans into their angry responses. The outside reflects the
inside. It is the
same movement. Here and not here. Seeing the identical nature, not
just in
logic, would open the door that I keep banging against. Do the
exercise. Here
and not here.
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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