jb
In a message dated 07/03/2005 2:23:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I saw the concert on TV last night, the sea of white faces and the wealthy rock stars singing to them. The African-American doing a Jesus rap with a huge cross projected behind him, must have had Europeans shaking their heads in dismay over ignorant Americans, as it was Christianity importing slaves to America, Islamic Arabs kidnapping and exporting them, that brought original grief to that continent, and that continues to this day in various horrific forms. Thus, the concert seemed to me to be a display of bad consciences, plus the usual egos and self-promotion. But I did like Dave Matthews, who at least is, or was, an African.
-Joel
They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.
".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of desire -- in the
sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful language
of power. There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or hypocritical,
whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks. The dominating
impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a prescribed
good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is poured
forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the slaughter house.
One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without first giving
free reign to this hubbub of voices...."
