pacifism

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

This all sounds good to me.

Mark


--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> > 
> > Howdy
> > --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > in part
> > 
> > > But yesterday I had the opportunity to view the WTC art work of
> > > children
> > > here.
> > > I think the world must see this art as often as they have seen
> the
> > > Hollywood / Tube
> > > pornography shots of the planes and the collapse of the towers.
> > 
> > It was the act which is obscene, not the representation of the act.
> 
> 
> The acts were acts of terror.  They were crafted to instill intense,
> overpowering fear. 
> This is what they have done. These were violence acts,  committed to 
> threaten the USA and it allies by a group of terrorists who planned
> to
> and did to intimidate the USA and coerce it to 
> change its policies. The acts have intimidated and terrorized an
> entire
> population. They were motivated by military or political objectives. 
> 
> As acts of terror they are offensive to accepted standards of decency
> or
> modesty. Indeed, I can not quarrel with your insisting that they were
> obscene. 
> 
> The Networks  have not committed acts of terror, and are in no way 
> responsible for these criminal acts. 
> 
> They  have been inciting the  public with photos and film clips that
> have been sharpened, intensified, magnified, edited and enhanced. And
> the constant, incessant, use of these images, are.  I think, 
> offensive
> and repulsive to the senses. I'm not going to argue freedom of the
> press
> or definitions of pornography, but I think it is clear that 
> there certain networks are acting irresponsibly. 
> 
> 
> 
>  I do think we would agree that all of us make ourselves aware of the
> > distortions inherent in the repetitive representation and their
> > linkages with other images.  Images such as those of little
> children
> > holding hands, and of their artwork stuck on fences, for instance.
> 
> Right. 
> 
> > 
> > > Kids have a need to express themselves and they are, in their
> art,
> > > poems, drawings on the sidewalks, in the street, in their
> > > performances,
> > > the toys and remembrances they carry around. This should be seen
> by
> > > the
> > > world. There is so much these kids can teach us.
> > 
> > Negative. There is much we must teach these children.  This is a
> > typical, and typically pernicious, romantic inversion of the kind
> of
> > adult/child relationship that pervades and debases our culture.
> 
> I disagree, Teaching is two way street, we teach, we learn. 
> I'm not a romantic, idealist, or naive, I know the difference between
> what kids can teach adults and what adults may teach children. 
> 
> 
> > 
> > > I don't think it's time to point fingers, as the one of children
> > > said,
> > > "it's time to hold hands."
> > 
> > But it is perfectly plain where the finger should point: at the men
> who
> > ran three planes into three buildings, and a fourth into the
> ground.
> > It is a morally reprehensible act to refuse to acknowledge this. 
> 
> 
> I agree. I was suggesting that the victims should not point fingers
> at
> each other. 
> 
> 
>  It
> > may be time for the children (who were targets of these men as
> well) to
> > hold hands with one another. It is time, please, for adults to act
> > their age.
> > 
> > Mark
> 
> I was speaking metaphorically, but I don't think holding hands has
> much
> to do with age or acting one's age.


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