Re: [microsound] Sitting on our hands

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billashline@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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> Mark Ragsdale wrote:
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>> To the gentleman in Korea-
>> The only way to change the world is through the promotion of peace. 
>> We start
>> by bringing peace to our own thoughts and that has a calming effect 
>> on those
>> around us. War is a result of our racing paranoid thoughts. So please
>> refrain from getting hot under the collar.
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> "Anger is the political sentiment par excellence.  Anger concerns the 
> inadmissible, the intolerable, and a refusal, a resistance that casts 
> itself from the first beond all it can reasonably accomplish--to mark 
> forth the possible ways of a new negotiation with what is reasonable, 
> but also the ways of an untractable vigilance.  Without anger, 
> politics is accomodation and influence peddling, and to write of 
> politics without anger is to traffic with the seductions of 
> writing."--Jean-Luc Nancy

I once again agree with Bill or - however - Jean-Luc Nancy. Anger is 
unmistakably related to revolt, and peace is in most cases 
system-stabilizing, what is fine is the system is free-chosen and just. 
If not, revolt, anger and violence is the only adequate answer a 
non-organized mass can give to change circumstances. Throw away your 
utopistic theories, if you want to talk about now politics. In most 
cases we are condemned to analyze what happens instead of influencing 
what happens. From what we can analyze, one can to say that raw 
emotional reactions of the mass are the only movements  that brought 
historical political changes from below, as far as I see... not always 
improvements, but at least new orders...

  

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