Fine with me, Lawrence, I do understand your position. I guess we all have a
part to be played, this is mine in this moment and yours is also clear. They
can anyhow coexist and I do evaluate yours.
Anny
> I don't know whether or not Randolph's view of this is the same as mine,
but
> when I read his
>
> | > So far I feel the opposite of joy, hope and understanding.
>
> it spoke to me, it gave voice to my feeling...
>
> I feel now as I felt when the original call went out - that, whatever its
> intentions, it is
> wrong-headed
>
> What's to celebrate? Joy in what? Hope for what? What understanding?
>
> Mass murder and destruction around the world and things go on as normal.
> Then it gets to NYC and people take notice. All of a sudden it's
> civilisation which is being attacked, betraying the assumption that
> civilisation is located among a few groups of relatively rich powerful
> people; and that's the assumption which gives us the murder and
destruction,
> often indirectly instigated by or for the benefit of rich powerful people.
>
> And when those people had been / are challenged, many come up with the
most
> shallow justifications - on this list some time ago the bombing of
> Afghanistan was justified on the grounds that it led to the free sale of
> fast food in Kabul
>
> But, never mind, with the 911 attacks people suddenly understood,
> experientally, what it is to be attacked... and what do we get? More death
> and destruction, along with prayers and *poems and too much schmaltz; and
> the apparent selfish belief that no one has ever suffered so much
>
> More people have died in road accidents in UK alone since 911 than in 911
>
> The poetry in these books may perhaps all be brilliant...
>
> I don't doubt the amount of work involved...
>
> Unicef may be worthy...
>
> I cannot think of any group more deserving than Afghan children although,
> unfortunately, I can think of other similarly appropriate groups produced
by
> the might is right school of morality.
>
> The blurb itself with "the fall of the towers and its outcome around the
> world" is indicative of misapprehension. We have today the assertion by
USA
> that the plans for the attack on bin Laden were already in progress... as
> many suspected, 911 provided a media excuse.
>
> The rhetoric of "the fall of the towers" reduces the clarity with which we
> might reflect that similar mass death had occurred and been shrugged over
in
> NYC and London, dismissed as collateral damage, explained away with "war
is
> war" and fake sorrow
>
> Nothing to celebrate. Next year Bagdad
>
>
> L
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