NP Misc.

[David Morris]

 Your question posits a "We."

Does a We exist?

We, I think, are turning a corner.  At least that's my optimistic thought
(a rarity).

On Saturday, December 15, 2012, Ian Livingston wrote:

> 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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> '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 <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'richard.romeo at gmail.com');>
>> > To: markekohut at yahoo.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'markekohut at yahoo.com');>
>> > CC: pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> '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<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '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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