Alan,
It's good to see you responding to this stuff in the Ukraine, and I
think you're probably echoing a lot of the things the rest of us are
thinking and feeling. There's a sense of helplessness when we look, and
a sense of guilt when we turn our eyes away and focus on anything else
for a while. There's a feeling that we ought to be constantly thinking
about it and talking about it, but also a sense, as you say, that to do
so is merely self-serving, because it doesn't actually achieve anything
except striking an appropriate posture.
I think we do have to try to find adequate responses if we can, but we
also have to carry on with/reaffirm the good and creative things in our
lives.
Today my son mentioned to me that he thought things must be improving in
the Ukraine, because it didn't seem to be in the news so much. And
that's part of our problem in the West: if it's not a headline, we think
the problem must have gone away. That's part of the reason why we find
it so difficult to deal with environmental issues.
What I find particularly distressing is that our Western politicians are
following the same populist behaviour-patterns as Putin - claiming to be
doing one thing, while actually doing something completely different.
I'm thinking of Priti Patel and her behaviour towards Ukrainian refugees.
Edward
On 3/13/22 3:54 AM, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote:
selfish truths dead music
video (audio) https://youtu.be/oLGWkWFC_bA
http://www.alansondheim.org/loss.jpg
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wartime - anything i say is self-serving
it's inconceivable we cannot annihilate the ego
all the world says me me me and says useless
the world is iron yes. iron survives
terror of rust dirty bombs sinter
luxury of surviving despair intact bones
luxury of speaking yes it's luxury
annihilation to the limit at a distance breathe
people trying to get out i sit here look look look
people on television playing football no sound now
i turn down sound look i think to myself look
2 friends to each other - shut up no one wants
to listen to you anyway - speaking is no longer
performative - i embarrass myself - everything here
- a luxury - this instrument - this equipment -
what survives - within a decade i'll most likely
be dead - statistics - war on screens - sounds -
hating the sound of voices - continuations -
continuums - incendiary bombs contribute to global
warming - self hatreds blossom like bombs -
another luxury - answer phones - field calls -
the them - us - we - me - latest news - give -
donations don't stop bombs - suffer the guilty -
first ones to call innocent - broken birds -
plants - you understand me i don't understand me
at all - the me closes in on itself - a particle
- no bombardment - sky is our closest enemy -
save yourself - eliminate the i - this will not
end well they say - this will not end well - this
will not end at all -
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