pynchon-l-digest V2 #2081

[Doug Millison]

>The sad truth of human relations, however, is that
you cannot get peace 
>without fighting for it. 


No, the undeniable truth is that you cannot get peace
by fighting.  You only get fighting.

Pacifism does not equal cowardice, either.  Ask
Ghandi, the Rev'd Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar
Chavez, and the many brave supporters of pacifist
movements that have managed to create peaceful change
in the face of violent oppression.  Or the courageous
protesters who have stood up, nonviolently, against 
brutal police and military forces in the
demonstrations against globalization. I guess you
could call them "naive" -- although their action and
ideology show a sophistication born of the knowledge
that violence begets violence, that war is a suicidal
embrace of conquerer and conquered -- but you
certainly can't call them cowards.  And shame on The
Economist for suggesting this, but what do you expect
from a corporate media tool that's inextricably part
of the corporate apparatus that feeds and profits from
War.

History amply illustrates that violence and war have
not brought violence and war to an end.  

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