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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