Hi Y,
Thanks for the link.. Sorry I haven't responded quicker, but weaning myself from SI..
Along those lines, Susan Sontag writes in the Dec 9, 2002
"The New Yorker" page 82, A Critic at Large, "Looking at War" discussing images, from our civil war to the current Afgan war... brutal depiction, to bring people's attention to this.. But does it help? Who knows.. Do images sensitize or desensitize us to the horror of war?..
It discusses Virginia Woolf's 1938 "Three Guineas". As Sontag put it, "her brave, unwelcomed reflections on the roots of war"
And it goes on and on, a terrible story but a good read, for those of us that love life like myself but ARE TRYING TO BRING the FUTILITY of this ONE ASPECT of the human condition to light.... (I recommend non-subscribers to spring for the news stand price of only $3.50, (a beer in a local pub)).
And near the close, she (Sontag) asks a question.. "Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And this is a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (probably yes.)"
I believe so, it is time we tried something different.. 5k (plus or minus) years hasn't worked..
m
PS.. We will be in your "neck of Cal" over the New Year's holiday, bring us good weather with lot's of SUN.. <g> |
