The Camera/Gun & the Culture of Death

[Ghetta Life]

Yes, but these disparate statements have been offered to us without their 
own context and grafted on to some VL quotes, and are thus rendered 
incomprehensible.  I was hoping to make some sense out of them in what seems 
to be their psychoanalytic (not real-world) intent, and maybe see if they 
could shed some light on VL, as Terrance intended them to do.  Norman O. 
Brown's "Life Against Death" very much does this for GR.

Ghetta

>From: Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com>
>
><<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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