Wrangle: What is to be done? http://www.alansondheim.org/wrangle.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/wrangle.jpg This is the way it works. Say there are ten billion people on the planet. (There are more) Say there are ten million in Ukraine. (There are more.) Say that someone in Ukraine has been killed, say a child, say in a shelter, say along with his mother, along with her father. Say two then. Each one of the two carries memories. (Of course.) Each one of them has a life cut short. Say that you think of your own life and its richness and inconceivable history. (To others.) This is the center of the storm. (The history.) Say the child survives, wounded. (This is the point.) That wound is carried for decades. That wound is decisive. That wound is an origin. It is not. It never can be, an issue of proportions. We are in each one of us. We are an ugly species. We do to ourselves over and over again and slowly, what no other animal does. Not to this extent. Not annihilation to the limit. Not to this extent of disfigurement. Each of us harbors the seeds of destruction. Each of us harbors murderer and victim. Each of us harbors tortured and torturer. Each of us is Ukraine and each of us is Russia. The worst of Russia. And what is to be done with that? That wound is decisive. That wound is an origin. _ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Wrangle: What is to be done?
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Fri, 27 May 2022 11:56:28 -0700
