[MD] War Stories

[MarshaV]

Hi Arlo,

It's a tragedy indeed.

Marsha


At 03:34 PM 10/3/2007, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>Collateral damage has a mother too.
>
>[Arlo]
>Absolutely. And it is this that gets lost under the weight of the
>Noble Knight Myth, where the only possible choices are broken into
>two absolute poles. "Our side", which epitomizes the noble and just
>and Good, and "their side", which contains naught but evil, vile,
>subhuman creatures. We dehumanize the enemy to assuage any guilt we
>may feel, and in doing so create the perfect enemy.
>
>And all this comes back to the idea that we must create unassailable
>hierarchies of value, whereupon "we" sit unchallenged at the zenith,
>using the inferior "others" only as best serve our needs. It is not
>simply xenophobia, a fear of the other, but an outright lack of all
>empathy relating to the human condition as experienced by anyone
>outside our national and cultural superiority.
>
>"A plane crashed in Brazil this morning killing 235 people... there
>were no Americans on board. In other news..." (Chevy Chase, SNL)
>
>While some trumpet this as they way they are and ought to be, I see
>it as a sad tragedy that will ensure the continued stalemate of
>humanity's evolution.
>
>
>
>
>At 12:05 PM 10/3/2007, you wrote:
>
> >Hi Arlo,
> >
> >Thank you for writing.  It is so hard for me to make sense out of
> >war.  If I think about it too much I get crazy.  I don't understand
> >men.  One kind of tyranny traded for another kind of tyranny.  All
> >rationalized into a neat little package.
> >
> >Collateral damage has a mother too.
> >
> >Marsha
>
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