What is to be done about Everything?

rhisiart at earthlink.net rhisiart at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 29 19:10:38 PST 2001


At 03:44 PM 11/29/2001, you wrote:


>I and others, on this list and elsewhere, have put the arguments against
>this about as fully as they can be, so endlessly repeating them seem
>futile. As I told my daughter nearly 40 years ago, if I were alive in
>1860 I wouldn't be me, and if I were in charge I wouldn't be me, so the
>question is a non-question. It doesn't exist. It can't be formulated.
>(One can make the sounds, and find those sounds registered in a
>dictionary, but the question is still simply non-signifying sound.) One
>remark.
>
>As long as we thought like this in the 1960s there was no anti-war
>movement. That movement only really began when we simply started to
>demand, Bring the troops home, and refused to argue about what was good
>or bad in Vietnam. I don't know what the government should do, and I do
>not give a fuck. If they keep on randomly slaughtering long enough,
>there will be a reaction. If they get their killing over quick, there's
>nothing I can do about it. Those who ask this question are seriously
>deceiving themselves.
>
>Carrol

"Nothing would be what it is. Because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise --what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?'

- Alice in Wonderland

think it over next time you say you don't "give a fuck."

R



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