Yeah, Johannes, all very well thought and intellectually correct. But how do you talk to or negotiate with psychopaths? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johannes Birringer" <orpheus@rice.edu> To: <dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 9:20 AM Subject: Re: Please pardon the off-topic message > >>there isn't a topic-specific list (or person or organization or...) > that hasn't broken regular programming. no need to apologize. > thanks for the post. > > > >.. We will > >>show the world that Americans are strong and united together against > >>terrorism. Please pass this to everyone on your e-mail list. We need to > >>reach everyone across the United States quickly. The message: WE STAND > >>UNITED - WE WILL NOT TOLERATE TERRORISM! We need press to cover this - we > >>need the world to see. > > > > The world was watching the terrible events of last week, but the world > is full of differentiated places, and perceptions about what this attack > intended against the US symbols of financial, military, and > executive/legislative power mean and what might have caused them, and I > think we need to discuss the causes, and the steps necessary for peace, > and not simply claim that everyone is united in rejecting terrorist > acts. The message, as it is written above, is ambivalent, at best, and > simple-minded, at least. As many of us are trying to make sense of what > happened last week, we also fear the perhaps imminent acts that the US > military might devise in a conflict that can not be solved by military > means. > > Johannes Birringer > c/o Germany >
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