mike,
My first message was a comment on today's events. The grotesque sublimity
of these acts, the entirety of their symbolic and blood content cannot fail
to generate a cultural-historical process of immense, and as Jay says,
"dangerous" proportions. I now feel forced to ask people to ask with me the
question, "Why would, whoever did this, do this?" It is clear that most
Americans have never understood that we have been at war for a long time
even as we watched our planes, and our "smart bombs", take out target after
target throughout the world.
Of course this is a tragedy of unspeakable proportions on innumerable
levels.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Lemke <jllbc@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
To: XMCA LISTGROUP <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:58 AM
Subject: tragedy in New York
>
> My first two emails received today were headed: "Disaster Area" and
> "Tragedy Today", one from a friend and student who saw the second World
> Trade Center tower collapse as he walked down Fifth Avenue toward our
> university building (a few miles north of ground zero), the other from the
> university president outlining the logistics of business not at all as
usual.
>
> I thought I'd send this message to the list to say that I stayed home this
> morning, a half hour north of the city center, and I wish that others
close
> to me had done the same, but all seem OK so far. Unfortunately, there have
> been many thousands of people who will already have died here today and
> many others elsewhere. We won't know for a few days what the emotional
> reaction is going to be here and across the U.S. It won't be good, and it
> could be dangerous.
>
> I need to take a walk.
>
> JAY.
>
>
>
>
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> JAY L. LEMKE
> PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
> CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
> JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> <http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/index.htm>
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