NP Misc.

[Ian Livingston]

I heartily agree. Twain spoke to it a hundred years back, to the effect
that we ignite a bunker and throw each other into the flames. Let's see,
how'd he put that.... "We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double
the fire department to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell of
blood, and then innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite that
sweeps the land as a consequence." - Speech, between October 5 and October
17, 1907. We feed psychotropic drugs to people whose minds are already
weakened and deluded into a perspective that sees slaughter as common and
who are living hopelessly at the edge, then we sell them guns. All the guns
they want.

Al queda won, exposing the greatest terrorist network ever devised. And we
are that.

A Dionysian age is in its full frenzy, taking innocents by the score. The
Apollonians have work to do. I think few generations have been called upon
to rebuild on the ruins of such a society as reigns today, but the coming
generation is tasked with just that. My question is how can we help, now
that we have let so much that is bad take root? There's work to be done,
that much I believe.

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Amany Rocco Kaiser <
amanyroccokaiser at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  We must consider what is behind it.
> >>It is no measure of *health to be well adjusted* to a profoundly *sick
> society*.<<
> If it is a matter of "guilt," the people will not be the great judge of
> this court. Because the indictee here is the people themselves ...
>
> ARK
>
> > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:48:49 -0500
> > Subject: Re: NP Misc.
> > From: richard.romeo at gmail.com
> > To: markekohut at yahoo.com
> > CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>
> >
> > considering what's happened in Connecticut today, a very heavy feeling
> > weighs one down. suppose thats what u were referring, too
> >
> > Hartford Courant @hartfordcourant
> >
> > One entire classrom is unaccounted for outside the school, sources said
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > > "The tragic is above all a property which we observe in events,
> fortunes,
> > > characters and the like, wnd which actually
> > > exists in them. We might say that it is given off by them like a heavy
> > > breath, or seems like an obscure glimmering that surrounds them."
> > > ---On the Tragic, Max
> > > Scheler, 1954
>
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