>I do teach my students that... it is they who believe in the bubble >of
>human rights including the right to weeks in Club Med.
>If I thought a few nightmares would help students in NA think more
> >carefully about the assumptions of an economy based on exploiting >most
>of the world's resources for the benefit not even of our >population but
>the top nth percent of it, I would be in favour of >keeping them sleepless.
> As it is, I try to look for evidence of the >kinds of contradictions you
>identify.
>
>thanks
>maureen
The paradox is that there is no evidence - people meet somewhere and train
and then disperse. There are no camps or installations, there are networks
- perhaps like the illusive (to the American Forces) ho chi min trail. And
perhaps that analogy should scare off Americans from any idea of retaliating
- against who?!?
The paradox is that, to quote Pogo (the comic strip) "I Have Found The
Enemy. It Is Us!", also the title of a paper presented to the 1989 ASQC
concerence in Toronto. In which Konosuke Matsushita, the head of Matsushita
Electric Corp was quoted as saying some pretty interesting things about the
west. Old new, but it has never been diseminated. In brief, Matsushita
said:
"We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out. There's
nothing you can do about it, because the reasons for your failure are within
yourselves ..."
Pining for Club Med is a symptom of a far larger problem. Club Med is
facilitated by gaze, governmentality and every other mechanism of imposing
human misery that Foucault spoke of. We have no right to expect other
people to serve us in that way. Ultimately that sort of colonist behavior
builds resentment.
Understand that and perhaps we can begin to understand the cause of the
terrorism experienced on S11.
Being able to cite examples of terroist training facilities is like counting
things that do not need counting or building shelves that will never be
filled with books.
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>human rights including the right to weeks in Club Med.
>If I thought a few nightmares would help students in NA think more
> >carefully about the assumptions of an economy based on exploiting >most
>of the world's resources for the benefit not even of our >population but
>the top nth percent of it, I would be in favour of >keeping them sleepless.
> As it is, I try to look for evidence of the >kinds of contradictions you
>identify.
>
>thanks
>maureen
The paradox is that there is no evidence - people meet somewhere and train
and then disperse. There are no camps or installations, there are networks
- perhaps like the illusive (to the American Forces) ho chi min trail. And
perhaps that analogy should scare off Americans from any idea of retaliating
- against who?!?
The paradox is that, to quote Pogo (the comic strip) "I Have Found The
Enemy. It Is Us!", also the title of a paper presented to the 1989 ASQC
concerence in Toronto. In which Konosuke Matsushita, the head of Matsushita
Electric Corp was quoted as saying some pretty interesting things about the
west. Old new, but it has never been diseminated. In brief, Matsushita
said:
"We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out. There's
nothing you can do about it, because the reasons for your failure are within
yourselves ..."
Pining for Club Med is a symptom of a far larger problem. Club Med is
facilitated by gaze, governmentality and every other mechanism of imposing
human misery that Foucault spoke of. We have no right to expect other
people to serve us in that way. Ultimately that sort of colonist behavior
builds resentment.
Understand that and perhaps we can begin to understand the cause of the
terrorism experienced on S11.
Being able to cite examples of terroist training facilities is like counting
things that do not need counting or building shelves that will never be
filled with books.
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