[lit-ideas] Re: News via the web
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:37:17 EST
In a message dated 4/2/2004 8:14:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Something is badly wrong with a world that feels
compelled to reduce a whole war to a couple of
'defining images.'
No matter how thoughtful we consider ourselves, most of us only look at the
world through a couple defining images at any given time. So the tendency of
groups to rally their members by summoning key images is not surprising.
The cross, the crescent, the star, the flag, a few defining images that
shield us from complexity.
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