VV(19) Suez Crisis

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

> jbor schrieb:
>
> > What goes around comes around, as they say. Johnny Contango, quite a
> > sympathetic character (as is Fat Clyde), repeats what has been a prominent
> > view of (the *lack* of) historical "causality" throughout the narrative:
> >
> >     "Why America is sitting on its ass," brooded Johnny, "is the same reason
> >     our ship is sitting on its ass. Crosscurrents, seismic movements,
> >     unknown things in the night. But you can't help thinking it's somebody's
> >     fault." (434)
> >


>  in a luhmannian view, these mentioned "crosscurrents, seismic movements,     
>  unknown things in the night" can  a l s o  be understood as metaphors for   
>  modern society's operative self-referentiality with its often disastrous    
>  "spin-off-effects". a "lack of historical causality", indeed. nobody's
>  fault, yet it's killing people ... somewhere in gr  we read: "decisions are > 
>  never really made ..." kfl


                                      last year i suggested to read the 
                                      "kreplach"-episode in gr's final chapter 
                                      (p. 737)as a parable about "emergency" (= 
                                      a system's new state that cannot be traced 
                                      back to the single element's qualities on 
                                      a lower level of aggregation), another 
                                      key-term of socio-cybernetics. it was paul 
                                      mackin who suggested that this could 
                                      concretely hint at hiroshima. this morning 
                                      i read in the faz-feuilleton (p. 48) an 
                                      article on hans bethe's ninety-fifth'     
                                      birthday. there it says " ... robert 
                                      oppenheimer integrated him in 1942 into 
                                      the manhatten-project for the developing 
                                      of the atomic bomb, in context of which 
                                      bethe was leading the theoretical 
                                      department in los alamos from 1943 til 
                                      1946. later he said on this that he had 
                                      had the feeling of doing the wrong, but 
                                      did it in fact nevertheless ..." yesyes, 
                                      that's how things run ... kfl