ematusov@udel.edu writes:
>Instead of an opportunity for soul searching, for reflection on how our
>ways of lives and actions contribute to past and current tragedies there
>is war drum beating.
i am hearing, and reading, a lot of aggressive language, but i am also
hearing, and reading, a lot of caution, a need for precision and not
rampaging attacks, - i admit i have no idea what is being planned, indeed
do any of us know? in spite of the war rhetoric, i keep hearing / reading
a "different kind of war" where bombing will not be part of the effort to
confront terrorism... i don't know, frankly, what the hell is going on
anymore.
>Political opposition and political debates have
>been collapsed replaced by religious and patriotic rituals and symbolism
>and propaganda. The CNN highlight is not that "America at tragedy" but
>"America at war." There is building war unity.
this too, i see in the headlines, but i get no sense of war-mongering from
any of the international communities who have agreed to participate in the
response.
> Any critique of
>government is considered to be as an act of terrorism. Democratic
>political processes are stole. Administration demands more power for
>itself, FBI, CIA, and military at expense of rights and needs of people.
i have heard this, too, often, and don't understand what is being implied
at all. can you explain?
>
>In Arizona there is the first new victim of new America war -- Indian
>immigrant killed by "patriotic" mob.
this upsets me more than the posturing and media-bytes. ignorance and
anger are terrifing.
diane
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"Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a
cigarette in a gutter - all are stories. But which is the true story? That
I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard,
waiting for someone to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making
this note and then another, I do not cling to life."
Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931.
(...life clings to me...)
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, montreal, qc, H9R 3Z2
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