[lit-ideas] Re: The Monster is dead

When emotions are high, words don't necessarily make sense.  Personally, I know 
he was a monster, among many monsters.  But monsters are created by people.  
Children are turned into monsters.   People only want blood and more blood, 
whether real or in video games or paint ball shoot outs or chess or whatever.  
Like Eric recommending more prisons, the way they have in Brazil, and Brian 
saying let's kill them all, meaning the terrorists.  Brazil is hell on earth, 
one of many.  And killing terrorists results in more terrorists.  Why is it so 
hard to understand that violence begets violence?  A witness to violence is a 
victim of violence.  Why not create a world one wants to live in, by feeding 
hungry children instead of invading Lebanon?  By teaching parenting?  I know, I 
know, teach whose ethics, whose religion etc. etc.  Nobody's ethics, nobody's 
religion, just good parenting.  Why does it scare people so?  Because they're 
afraid they'll have no hangings to watch and no wars to watch?  No houses to 
bulldoze and no shock and awe to pride themselves on?  Because they're afraid 
their children will no longer be their possessions?  Who wants to be a 
possession?  Do you want to be a possession?  Too bad the human race is so in 
love with itself, even as they hate each other to death.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Dec 30, 2006 7:04 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Monster is dead
>
>At 04:22 PM 12/30/2006, you wrote:
>>Sounds like you want emotions to make sense.  Emotions don't have to 
>>make sense, they're outside the realm of cognitive.
>
>No I was commenting on the INANE comments that dozens of people were 
>making in the two hours before the inevitable and the hour after it. 
>They were just rambling on and on. The guy who witnessed the 
>execution -- apparently Saddam's friend -- said "it worked very 
>nicely" about the noose. Larry King asked Anderson Pooper "Do you 
>think this is rather Ghoulish?". The guy with no hand {weiskopf?} on 
>Anderson Cooper's show was spewing unbelievable non-sequiturs and 
>nonsense. I guffawed at least 12 times in three hours and I'm not a 
>sicko. The things these turds were saying were that ridiculous. They 
>were talking to talk. And AC's mock sincerity was absolutely 
>hilarious. It was REALLY like a parody of itself.
>
>p
>
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