The Camera/Gun & the Culture of Death

Malignd malignd at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 9 12:00:28 CST 2003


<<The first quote implies that war is the inevitable
result of a level of independence, maturity, beyond
the infant-parent state.  That infantile state
exemplified by the regressive control of totalitarian
states.  The second quote says that war results from
an infantile reaction to the complexities of group
existence.>>

Observing any war--but using recent, ongoing, and
horrific examples of brutality run amok like the
ethnic slaughter and carnage in Palestine or Kosevo or
Iraq--don't such statements as the above (more
accurately, the statements those above synopsize)
strike you as largely effete and wholly absurd?


 

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