VV(19) Suez Crisis

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 4 03:19:00 CDT 2001


By the way, note the (paranoid?) pun here ...

--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> "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." ([V., p.] 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

... "seismic movements," "somebody's fault," geddit,
geddit?  Very good ...

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