Re: [microsound] Sitting on our hands

[Store <store@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, me again...
Just to say: Don't read this as a call to arms. I wanted to say that 
these things just happen  - mostly unplanned - and that there's no sense 
in doing as if this has no place in the global history of the future. I 
too prefer to live peaceful, but if things around me would become 
intolerable, that may change...

Store wrote:

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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
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> 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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