Dear Colleagues,
I think it is beyond our intellectual resources to grasp the significance of
this atrocity just like that - maybe our confidence in our own intellectual
"expertise" makes us feel we have a duty to comment. It is very likely that
most of us are unable to move beyond their own humanity at the moment - which
probably involves a doubt about our own condition. And from doubt might come
fear and anxiety. And from fear and anxiety comes doubt...
What Emmanuel Santoyo seems to have is a quick rationalising response to
something which goes beyond reason: his own and anybody else's in their right
mind!!!
After seeing all this catastrophe how can anyone have the audacity to pretend
they UNDERSTAND immediately what occurred and what it means (in the deepest
sense of the word)???
Maybe I am stunned because of my personal existential and historical
incompetence - but maybe not...
Bogdan Costea
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Dobbins, Ph.D. [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:59 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: US under attack
>
> Obviously, you understand nothing.
>
> Jim Dobbins
>
>
> "emmanuel s.r." wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think I understand what the people in NYC and places "attacked" might be
> > going trough right now.
> >
> > Still, this should also help us to think what the US Forces do to many
> > people around the world EVERY DAY. How they bomb UNICEF camps in Iraq full
> > with women and children, how they economically block countries, how they
> > participate in wars just because the government thinks that what they
> should
> > do, and in the end because that is the way to keep their power.
> >
> > Well, just something I have been thinking this morning and wanted to share.
> >
> > emmanuel santoyo
> >
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