BE -- "death wish for the planet"

[Mark Kohut]

The late Norman O. Brown still lives in that BE line, I felt when I read
it.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Ernie on the internet in BE:
>
> "'As it kept growing, it never stopped carrying in his heart a bitter-cold
> death wish for the planet, and don't think anything has changed, kid.'"
>
> BE, 420
>
> John Kennedy on the search for peace:
>
> "We must, therefore, preserve in the search for peace in the hope that
> constructive changes within the Communist bloc might bring within reach
> solutions which now seem beyond us. We must conduct our affairs in such a
> way that it becomes in the Communists' interest to agree on a genuine
> peace. Above all, while defending our vital interest, nuclear powers must
> avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a
> humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the
> nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy -- or of
> a collective death-wish for the world."
>
> http://www1.american.edu/media/speeches/Kennedy.htm
>
>
> Kennedy also said:
>
> "In short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and
> its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and
> in halting the arms race. Agreements to this end are in the interests of
> the Soviet Union as well as ours -- and even the most hostile nations can
> be relied upon to accept and keep those treaty obligations, and only those
> treaty obligations, which are in their own interest.
>
> So, let us not be blind to our differences -- but let us also direct
> attention to our common interests and to means by which those differences
> can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can
> help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our
> most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe
> the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
>
> Quite impressive.
>
>
>
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