Spread the the love like butter on a hot summer day.
on 8/2/02 8:09 AM, furtherfield at
info@furtherfield.org wrote:
Hi Nikola,
I know that you don't want to hurt yourself by getting distracted by
poilitcal issues.
He has more of a right to post on this list, than we have the right to
ignore the killing of many civilian lives. Why are you not interested in
accepting people's unhappy situations, what is wrong with acknowledging the
damage that is being imposed on civilians lives via corporate & governmental
oppression? Why shouldn't he post a compassionate plea on the list? I
believe that life is more important than comfort, more important than art.
Everyone has experienced pain in some form or other, via someone else's
cold-hearted decision to actively cause pain. It is important that people
are aware of what is happening around the world, for what happens out there,
outside one's own nation/border - occrances/situations effect us all in many
ways. In respect of what you term as 'putting all the blame on a far away
enemy', well, if that far away enemy is killing your families, friends and
livelihood. What are going to do, accept it? I
But there is nothing wrong with feeling compassion for other people, &
helping them in what ever way you can, no matter how small. For instance
that individual who posted that email did it out of desperation, confusion
about a world that does not look after its own people's.
Why are you posting this on an US based net.art community mailing
> list? So you get few people to tell you "oh god, that is horrible" and then
> forget about it after 5 seconds.
I would of thought this would be a perfect place to mail such an email, as
far as he/she is concerned. I will not forget - because I actually care
about humanity, and I am actively contributing in my own way to trying to
make it a better place, contrary to the grunts who are far to keen to kill.
> If you want the war to stop I suggest you turn the other cheek cause only
> fuel for your war is your own hate and pride, and you have no right to put
> all the blame on a far away demon.
So your suggestion to this desperate individual who is being victimized by a
super power is to turn the other cheek, your advice is wrong. It lacks
intuitive understanding of humanity & lacks empathy.
Every culture, every society, every country, every family has problems that
are violent, yet many people do not appreciate; that there are real troubles
happening globally that will influence their lives whether they want it to
or not, imposing massive changes on communities, causing mass imigration of
the likes that we have never seen before. If artists hide away in denial,
not wanting to face their own demons, fear of questioning why their own
country/religion is hurting another, then we will continue to fall further
into 'global collapse'.
Esso has done more than any other company to undermine the Kyoto Protocol,
the only international treaty to stop global warming. In fact, it's largely
because of Esso that President Bush has washed his hands of the treaty. The
USA is responsible for a staggering 25% of all the pollution that causes
global warming. Exxon was one of the main financial contributors to George
Bush's election campaign. As soon as George Bush became president, he
announced that the US would pull out of international agreements to stop
global warming - exactly the position that Exxon was promoting.
Do you think that this is right? If not, what are you going to do about?
Because all this is part of the same thing. It is all connected. It is our
responsibility to look out for other human beings, to see that they are
being treated fairly. Humanity must learn by its mistakes (some hope).
And I saw Sisyphus too, bound to his own torture,
grappling his monstrous boulder with both arms working,
heaving, hands struggling, legs driving, he kept on
thrusting the rock uphill toward the brink, but just
as it teetered, set to topple over --- time and again
the immense weight of the thing would wheel it back and
the ruthless boulder would bound and tumble down to the plain again ---
so once again he would heave, would struggle to thrust it up,
sweat drenching his body, dust swirling above his head (269).
Marc Garrett
If we all just ignore these issues that are continiously occuring.
> re = I would be dishonest if I said I didn't hate the American government.
> I do hate it, so really, so deeply and, yes, so rightly.
>
> I spent 3 months under the NATO bombers in Belgrade, but I have to say that
> what you are silly.
>
> First: I do not follow the political situation in your part of the world
> but I do understand that you are putting all the blame on a far away enemy
> which you can not touch, which actually makes it easy for you to just
> complain and do nothing positive.
>
> Second: Why are you posting this on an US based net.art community mailing
> list? So you get few people to tell you "oh god, that is horrible" and then
> forget about it after 5 seconds.
>
> If you want the war to stop I suggest you turn the other cheek cause only
> fuel for your war is your own hate and pride, and you have no right to put
> all the blame on a far away demon.
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> mailto:nikola@tosic.com
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