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From: "cozens" <cozens@ntlworld.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:55 AM
Subject: MD I am human
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> Like most, I expect we are all still in a state of shock having passed
> disbelief.
> I don't know what was trying to be achieved by these evil acts,
> if it was to mimic an attack by another nuclear power in the hope
> of a spiralling escalation to nuclear holocaust thereby new world order
...
> it failed
Hello cozens,
I imagine that to an extremist muslim the twin towers are the antithesus of
Mecha.
By striking at the greatest symbol of western material values they hoped to
send a terrible symbolic message to the 'west'. Judging by the possible
economic effects of this horror they may have succeeded in their objective.
> if it was to provoke Americans into an isolationist policy in future ....
it
> remains to be seen, but from what I've heard on the News it sounds that it
will also >fail, as it looks like all people that share common values are
coming even closer together >to act in defence of these values and reduce
the threat to their existence.
We must all hope that the sentiments we have been expressed by world leaders
are genuine and not just a response born of self preservation and diplomacy.
> In order to eradicate the threat of international terrorism, root causes
at
> all levels need to
> be identified, prioritised and addressed,
>
> How do we go about that ?
>
International terrorism is just another Platipus, a pidgeon hole in which to
categorise the groups or individuals who conduct actions that are designed
to communicate fear to a population or meet a strategic para-military
objective.
MoQ peels away the categories that blinker us to the solutions. There has to
be a framework imposed on global societies to address issues of injustice
and promote a sense of internationalism and multiculturalism.
Such an imposition might be an impossible dream, for with its stabilising
influence we may lose our sources of dynamic quality. America and New York
are surely reactions against such impositions, growing as they have out of
those who wished to reject the stratified and repressive frameworks of their
homelands. Pirsig while acknowledging the quality of New York was very aware
of the social and biological costs of that quality.
I don't believe that there is anywhere in the world where the balance
between these oposing streams of quality has been found.
The balance may be an impossible dream but the search for it is in my mind
the most moral thing that a society driven by intellect can do.
Mk
--M a r k L u c a s
l u c a s - d i g i t a l . c o m
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