Dear Everybody,
I really felt shocked and sad for what happened--saw it just minutes after
the event on Hong Kong TV--couldn't believe it at first, and immediately
hoped that members in the xmca community are well and alive.
Eugene is right--it's an extremely violent way of communication, if it can
be seen as communication at all, by those who somehow felt/thought that
they had exhausted all other peaceful ways of communication. Mike, I have
to point out the danger of your metaphor, though--perhaps it's precisely
the (irrational, unjustified?) feeling of being positioned as "children"
(in relation to US) that has motivated such an inhuman way of communication
to make a statement about their position in the world?
In mourning...
Angel
At 01:18 PM 9/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I don't think its difficult to understand why the people who carried out
>these acts of destruction, and many to come, did what they did.
>
>It never ceases to amaze me how convinced we are that God is on our side,
>so we are not only justified, but morally required, to act in such ways.
>
>I shudder to think of the sequalia, with the bloodbath in the middle east
>as a ready-to-hand model.
>
>One of the few clear generalizations from the developmental literature
>on the use of physical punishment with children is that it creates more
>violent children...... just to bring the conversation down to a level
>where I have some professional competence.
>
>Meantime, I am waiting to hear from friends in New York whose children
>just may have been working downtown today.
>
>mike
>
>
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Angel Lin, Ph.D.(Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
University of Toronto)
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City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon, Hong Kong
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