Re: [Fis] Solidarity

Folks --
What Jim says below seems quite the case. Our Leader on TV looks (subtley)
like he feels his "stock" has just been improved by this event. For a
self-declared "war president", this has to be bracing stuff! The trouble
is we are under threat, not only from the non-negotiating enemies of
modernity, but from the environmental conditions (including all those new
diseases coming from mass produced meat) resulting from our modern way of
life.
     Anyway, this event did give me (hardened and cynical) an unexpected
blue funk.

Sadly,
STAN

>In adding my voice of sorrow and condolence I must also share my regret
>that another opportunity has been created to manipulate the public by the
>despicable and greedy merchants of fear in this country. My apologies for
>becoming partisan in this context, but the political repurcussions of
>escalating violence are as tragic as the violence itself.
>
> And somewhere buried in these issues is the perennial enigma of
>information and insight, the difficulty posed for the human species of
>distinguishing between knowledge and wisdom, the chasm between knowing and
>understanding how to act based on knowing. Implicated also is the simple
>and straightforward strategy of manipulating information to serve partisan
>ends. I suppose none of us are innocent on that count, at one scale or
>another.
>
>Jim Cogswell
>
>
>--On Friday, March 12, 2004 11:53 AM -0500 Dupagement@aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear FISers:
>> Having been a tourist in Madrid 2 years ago, I and my family had one of
>> the best times of my life. It gives us great pain to learn about the
>> recent tragedy and the horrible act of violence against the innocent
>> victims. May we all come together as one family united against terrorism
>> in this world. Syed Ali
>> Wheaton, Illinois
>
>
>
>Jim Cogswell
>Professor, School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
>2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069
>Phone: (734) 764-0397
>mailto:jcogs@umich.edu
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>http://www.umich.edu/~jcogs
>http://fis.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/resources/jim_cogswell/
>
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Received on Sun Mar 14 16:39:00 2004