NP Misc.

[Ian Livingston]

I think at least one We exists. Maybe it's two, maybe 2,000,000,000, But I
think We exist and, like you, I want to believe we are at a turning point.
I hope we turn to the better.


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:33 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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> 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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