Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:57:02 -0500 From: Don Socha <socha1de-AT-cmich.edu> Subject: RE: the latest in propaganda... Eric writes: >Don, > >[snip] Perhaps this is the first step - to recognize that fear is >used as a weapon and to resist it as such. I want to think the problem is closer to the bone. I mean, more than a weapon, fear goes a long way toward how I am fundamentally, and I feel it is my responsibility to work to do something about that. But what? I think I have to train my mind somehow, get it into a new habit... created somehow... by some kind of practice through which I am not afraid. Fundamentally, though, I need to understand what fear is. Having lived through trauma creates fear, and trauma seems to be something that few human beings have not experienced on some level. I want to understand how it affects me in different localities. I get the hebeegeebees at stripmalls, for example, or when I'm feeling impatient. It manifests itself as a kind of impatience verging on panic. And certain people, like Dick Cheney can trigger it in me, or car salesmen, or apathetic, self-destructive post adolescents breaking the speed limit.... Anyway, fear affects the way I am. And to recognize that, I think is my first step, not toward realizing that "another world is possible," but something more immediate? Don > >I admit I have been surprised to discover how many others here in >America share political views similar to mine about the war and the >economy. There is also a linkage here with others around the world. >While I don't want to minimize the dangers, I also want to point out >that this is not the time for us to despair. > >Once Margaret Thatcher said: "There is no alternative." > >More recently, it has been said by the Zapatistas: "Another world is >possible." > >Now we must decide what choice we will make. What world will you choose? > >eric > > >
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