On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:00:23 -0800 (PST), Andrew VK3BFA
wrote:
On Jan 12, 3:50*am, F. George McDuffee gmcduf...@mcduffee-
associates.us wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:01:38 -0800 (PST), Andrew VK3BFA
wrote:
On Jan 10, 2:22 pm, wrote:
What I have feared in the USA, based on the highly polarized political
rhetoric I've heard here and on other newsgroups has happened, in a
small (relatively) way in Tuscon yesterday. The attack on an American
congresswoman, and the death of a federal judge and 5 others,
including an innocent 9 year old girl, is NOT what America wants to be
known for.
The divisive political rhetoric can so easily trip an off-balance
person to do horrific things - and put many otherwise functional
people off-balance - making these occurrences more likely.
In this case the perp was captured alive so there is a CHANCE what
causes this one to go off may be established - kinda hard to do when
they kill themselves or are gunned down by LEOs
Pray for the USA.
****, you guys have got a REALLY GREAT political system......and you
got Nukes too, truly frightening for the rest of the world....
Andrew VK3BFA.
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Thanks for your concern.
I don't know how many of the group were around when John
Kennedy got shot in Dallas [Friday 22 Nov 1963], but the
same sound bites were pumped out then,the same panaceas
[mean looking gun & high capacity magazine bans] proposed,
the same calls for restrictions on political "hate" speech
made, and the same media crocodile tears shed.
Look for another Warren Commission to conclude he was a lone
gunman and acted alone. *Also look for an assassination
[attempt] while he is in custody, ala Lee Harvey Oswald.
-- Unka George *(George McDuffee)
..............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).
Hey George - and thank you, from this distance its madness - you dont
like someones politics, you kill them.
You guys were/are supposed to be good example of tolerance, the rule
of law etc etc - (its in you constitution, go read it. they wrote it
so idiots could understand it)
And its a great pity the same crap just keeps on going on.. we dont
seemed to have progressed a whole lot in hte last 2,000 years.
You people have done so much good - whats going on, you fragmenting
into warring tribes or what?.
Andrew VK3BFA
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It appears to go deeper than that, and is not limited to the
US.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-...-Salman-Taseer
One possible frame work is to observe that every
society/culture has a majority tacit/implicit "meta
narrative" [and several auxiliary ones depending on the
individuals age, ethnicity, gender, etc.] people keep
playing in their head to make/organize their world and spin
it into existence.
From time to time the existing meta narratives for
large/significant groups become increasingly unsynchronized
with/decoupled from actual/underlying conditions and
circumstances creating large amounts of individual
[unfocused and subliminal] angst, incongruence, and
desonance. {Translation: Large numbers of people are not
(intellectually/consciously) sure why, but they are scared
to death, mad as hell, and not going to take "it" anymore.}
Cue Twisted Sister "We're not gonna take it anymore" here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MotNtq41NDw
While there are typically and historically a number of
individual reactions to a failing meta narrative,
dispassionate contemplation and logical assessment are not
generally among them. The two predominate response groups
appear to be the "reactionaries," who wish to return to some
ill-identified "golden age" [that most likely never existed]
by changing the conditions and circumstances [back] to what
these were (although this is most likely impossible), and
the "heaven-stormers," who seek to correct all societal ills
and perfect mankind (e.g. the new soviet man) at a single
stroke, although this has never worked either.
In the U.S. this failure/divergence of the majority meta
narrative resulted in the Civil War [1861-1865] and very
nearly a repeat during the civil rights / Vietnam era
[1955-1968]. Although not as widely remembered, the era of
profound labor unrest, as exemplified by the IWW/Wobblies,
during the great depression is another example of a near
disaster.
http://www.iww.org/culture
We appear to be at another historical cusp where the
accepted/orthodox majority meta narrative no longer
adequately represents the actual conditions and
circumstances, and we have yet again the [highly unstable]
condition that McCauley describes:
"Was none who would be foremost
To lead such dire attack:
But those behind cried ‘Forward!’
And those before cried ‘Back!’"
Stanza L -- Horatius
http://www.englishverse.com/poems/horatius
We are indeed living in interesting times...
-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
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The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).