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