From: "matthew piscioneri" <mpiscioneri-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Resistance Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 07:13:09 +0000 <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV><FONT size=2> <P>Dear Bob,</P> <P>This sort of polemic is inspiring:</P> <P>>as for my thoughts re bush/cheney etal,...am long </P> <P>>schooled, from homely experience as well as "great game" and history, "the world" is run by gangsters and their >legion thugs, bootlickers,...still, the orwellian quality of it, the cynical brutality, ...on stage before the world, ...the >pretext so transparent, hypocrasy so bold, the contempt for right so perfect, the serene imperviousness to the >human consequences, ...is always deeply shocking. </P> <P>The following sentiments I perceive are "practically" debilitating, and yet your "pessimism" (defeatism?) must take its place in current discourses for I believe they impact directly on praxis considerations</P> <P>"...in nature of course the strong by law eat the weak, and no need for rationalizing,... and the inference that Bush and the entire company from supporting world leaders to intelligentsia to B-52 pilots almost have to be dramatically deficient specimen, ... sub-, or non-, human, ...gangster-scum,...seems to me inescapable</FONT> </P><FONT size=2> <P>...as for the notion that will to power is everywhere, the ontological fundamentum, ...right, merely one of its more sophisticated articulations; but the pain/guilt of having to stand by helplessly watching this spectacle, the degraded actors, and the dramatically drawn-out horror of cold-blooded murder, seems almost existential proof (the pain/guilt that is) against nietzsche, no? ...that meaning, right and its opposite, must be more originary.</FONT> </P><FONT size=2> <P>If it’s revenge you want in the name of amnaestic solidarity ;-)</P> <P>"...soooo, felix culpa,... while it don't do much for them, an Iraqi hekatomb does us the grace to prove the existence of god, or something?</FONT> </P><FONT size=2> <P>anyway, there's my home-baked socio-onto-theology of this war, massacre, whatever."</FONT> </P><FONT size=2> <P>...only the germans showing some spine, yes....but, how far?</P> <P>Bob, a couple of days down the track all I can say is that Germany in the Allied bloc stands alone as a voice both of reason and of compassion with the suffering. Personally I think it is a defining world-historical moment. As one six billionth of the world’s citizenry I want to say thank you to the German people for defying the militaristic fascism of the United States.</P> <P>Let’s go.</P> <P>MattP</P> <P></FONT><BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: <a href='http://g.msn.com/1HM1ENAU/c156??PI=44314'>Click Here</a><br></html>
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