[lit-ideas] Re: Aaaaaargh

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:06:33 -0400

Best defense is an offense.  I am making comments on what I see in the
world.  Answer the questions.  Why is the 30th birthday greeted with black
balloons?  Why is it an honor to die for one's country?  Why better red
than dead?  Why did those sophisticated white Europeans slaughter each
other by the many tens of millions, twice, if humanity loves life so much? 
Why did we invade Iraq?  Why do we propound torture?  My misery or its lack
created none of these situations.  If the best response you can give is an
overt personal attack without anything beyond happy talk, then I take that
as your tacit agreement with my position.


> [Original Message]
> From: Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/27/2006 10:56:29 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Aaaaaargh
>
> But, Andy, I don't understand.  If you're so miserable, why don't you
kill 
> yourself?
>
>
> Mike Geary
> Life is not what you make of it,
> life is how you partake of it.
> Celebrate.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:07 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Aaaaaargh
>
>
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: 9/27/2006 7:27:34 PM
> >> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Aaaaaargh
> >>
> >> Andy: If, against all the evidence, you think society
> >> celebrates life, then that's what you think.  I'm just
> >> curious, why do you think  there is crime, etc. in the
> >> world?  Intelligent Design?  Malignant Design?  Bad choices?
> >>    Not enough torture?
> >>
> >>
> >> My point is that society, any society, but particularly
> >> American society, is more varied and rich than any idea we
> >> can have about it. Sure there's the mercantile stuff and all
> >> the other shenanigans of this or any Gilded Age. There's
> >> also life being celebrated.
> >>
> >
> > Makes one wonder why the Axis of Evil and why the right wing was so
adrift
> > after the fall of the Soviet Union, with no enemy to pursue.  If life
is 
> > so
> > celebrated, why are we so hung up on youth?  Perhaps you'd like to 
> > rephrase
> > your statement that a third to a half of life is celebrated?  The black
> > balloons start with the 30th birthday.  What do black balloons
celebrate?
> > Life is theoretically celebrated.  We all love life, until our actions
and
> > words demonstrate that we really don't.  There are always exceptions of
> > course, if that's what you want to cite.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Go to a public park. Sit on a bench for 45 minutes and watch
> >> the people. Bet you catch some celebrations of life. Catch
> >> 'em in the act you will.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Kind of reminds me of all the discussions about the futility of the Iraq
> > invasion and the Pollyanna assertions that everything was fine, when
it's
> > finally official that everything is not fine.  The bottom line is,
humans
> > are unconsciously driven.  To assert otherwise makes no sense, unless
one
> > is religious or doesn't believe in the unconscious for some reason. 
But,
> > in these New Middle Ages, every backwards thing is possible and is
> > happening.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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