Re: empty or not
Jay Lemke (JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU)
Tue, 23 Apr 96 23:20:08 EDT
Closed vs open system is a big part of it. There is also
the question of what our alternative is to a deskful of
schemas, and a heavily-armed hoplite. [Hoplites were the
heavy infantry of polis Hellas.] Our guerillas are lightly
equipped because the people are their shields, and they
fight with the countryside as their weapon, living off the
land. Is this the difference between the mercenaries of
a distant imperial power who must bring everything with
them, trusting nothing indigenous, and the flower of the
people, defending the land by being one with it? JAY.
JAY LEMKE.
City University of New York.
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