Hi Arlo, It's a tragedy indeed.
Marsha At 03:34 PM 10/3/2007, you wrote: >[Marsha] >Collateral damage has a mother too. > >[Arlo] >Absolutely. And it is this that gets lost under the weight of the >Noble Knight Myth, where the only possible choices are broken into >two absolute poles. "Our side", which epitomizes the noble and just >and Good, and "their side", which contains naught but evil, vile, >subhuman creatures. We dehumanize the enemy to assuage any guilt we >may feel, and in doing so create the perfect enemy. > >And all this comes back to the idea that we must create unassailable >hierarchies of value, whereupon "we" sit unchallenged at the zenith, >using the inferior "others" only as best serve our needs. It is not >simply xenophobia, a fear of the other, but an outright lack of all >empathy relating to the human condition as experienced by anyone >outside our national and cultural superiority. > >"A plane crashed in Brazil this morning killing 235 people... there >were no Americans on board. In other news..." (Chevy Chase, SNL) > >While some trumpet this as they way they are and ought to be, I see >it as a sad tragedy that will ensure the continued stalemate of >humanity's evolution. > > > > >At 12:05 PM 10/3/2007, you wrote: > > >Hi Arlo, > > > >Thank you for writing. It is so hard for me to make sense out of > >war. If I think about it too much I get crazy. I don't understand > >men. One kind of tyranny traded for another kind of tyranny. All > >rationalized into a neat little package. > > > >Collateral damage has a mother too. > > > >Marsha > >Moq_Discuss mailing list >Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >Archives: >http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
