From: Kenneth Van Oost (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Thu 16 Mar 2006 - 20:51:57 GMT
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From: Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com>
> >Just an update that the deaths so far are in the hundreds.
> >Will the meme now lose influence? Or will it continue?
> >Or will it be seen in a large context as part of the clash between the
> >Islamic meme set and the memes of western culture?
> >On the basis of EP memetics and war, my bet is that until the population
> >growth of Islamic parts of the world goes below the economic growth and
> >stays there for a generation there will be continuing problems with
> >growing out of this and similar memes.
> >Outright international wars don't look all that likely because of the
huge
> >technological gap. Civil wars are a different matter.
Keith,
Atleast I do think you have to extend your view about the ' why ' tribes
kill off the one next door.
The next is my attempt to try to see it otherwise....
<< We see that all formative processes are self- developing, in the sense
that within an appropriate environment they tend to form structures which
facilitate the further development of the process_ thus by recognizing this
characteristic we can agree on the fact that those who act organised about
attacking at appropriate times their closest neighbours would do better.
Moreover, that achieving/ developing such reaction would become more
evident in the future when needed.
But where such form molds and matures the social community further,
other forms of thought; the interplay between past, todays and future words/
convictions/ behaviours disappears and is getting absorbed on the moment
by the tribes attempts to kill off the one next door.
To what extend are forms of thought about war and death preserved/ glori-
fied / reveal themselves and others which make a greater use of the records
of the past ( peace/ solidarity/ generosity) simply forgotten !?
Where is the influence of the past records gone on the moments that present
stimuli stage the development for an armed struggle !?
It seems that the contrast between the two lines of thought is inherent to
the
ways our brain functions. We modern people do live by the grace of a
current affairs realization which demands a systematic forgetting.
This is the curse laid on homo sapiens_ as an intellectual being he cannot
escape this dichotomy untill one of the elements into the equation exhaust
itself. But which one !? War of peace ? Egoism or solidarity ? Tragedy or
pleasure ? Staticity or dynamism ? Clearity or darkness ? Retreat or attack
?
Intellectual man has no choise to follow the path which sharpes primitive
cries and chants in becoming static_ war must persist in peace, egoism
shapes solidarity and altruism, tragedy draws the outlines of happiness, the
spirit and soul matters, freedom is a necessity. Static concepts like these
are
not unchangable or periodic, they represent aspects of an evolutionary
process.
The fact that the two attitudes correspond to a different condition of
thought
means that man can live/ act/ behave/ embrace co- operations or
polarisations
and ends up into pure opposition/ idealism/ totalitarism or stands for
compo-
nents like consideration/ ethics/ morality_ the difference between respect
and
efficiency and collectivism and nationalism.
But what do we actually forget ? It needs a further check to what extend any
cataclysm is the beginning for the way to/ the inexistence of any word/
image/
point/ thing to quite its opposite ! We make choises, but somewhere down the
line we don 't know which way to turn next. Time, space, comprehension,
discussion, discours have been given to us from the start, but always death,
contradiction, strangeness have been waiting there for us in the dark.
Ever since we say everything can go, there is nothng more to be said !
For things to be said_ in the final evolution_ we must forget.
Considered as such, the argument takes place in my mind, and as little as it
may take, it is nonetheless entirely there_ something else is forces to
mute.
But what do we actually forget ?
War is accompied by a burst of words, threats, rages, incarnates hysteria of
speech. All of a sudden we understand the comments and grasp their meaning.
But what did we actually forget in such a moment of wordly delirium !?
This may be worth stopping at !
Do we actually forget what peace is all about in times of war !?
Do we not know, now that any evolution without instinction is a truly death
business !? Especially since it may allows us to think that war might
conceal
other reasons than just open ways to end misery, hunger and the inevitable
disturbances generated by a resource crunch. There are reasons of an
entirely
different nature, less exterior.
Intrinsic, so to speak, to the very constitution of the human being.
In this hypothesis, it's the human himself that would draw from within the
strenght to fight, at each moment to determine a more essential possibility,
to lame attempts for resistance; it's the human object his own manner to
remain natures pure virtility.
Let us simply consider the fact that if as has been said, we must forget,
it follows logically that the mode of language is one of not being. This
should be obvious. For, if forgetting precedes conversation, forgetting
outlives it. It is first and last !
First, like a reminder of what was there before, and last, of what we
cannot return to. Once the conversation is over, the forgetting begins.
But all the more war coincides with the acknowlegment that conversation
failed all together and that makes we did forget the words we drag be-
hind up to the point that we loose their selective capacities.
We hardly can conceal the brutal pounding of the sounds of the planes
flying overhead and the bombs. And rather sinister the characteristics of
words, of tones are reduced to pulp, knocking over the exquisiteness of
hearing; inflicting violence.
And we can be all the more surprised then to see we are caught up in a
network of simple blows, discriminations and increasing excesses of in-
tolerance, butchering, damage, chupping everything to bits.
War itself is a great deal of noise, of bombs and certainly of words which
detach themselves from the rubble and save the day.
Lets talk !!!!!
Written by Kenneth Van Oost, March 2006
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