it is reasonable and just

[oneken]

to feel contempt for those too mush-headed to work out obvious contradixions in their ideologies or personal codes, and scorn for those too intellectually lazy to face rotting blunders in past judgement, and a degree of loathing for those too flaccidly polite to raise tough questions

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Darryl Sez:

[anonymous]

Some of us feel no need to work the contradictions or blunders out, though. They humble those of us with a fatal penchant for arrogance. We just let 'em burn like candles in the night of our past.

Re: Darryl Sez:

[oneken]

so the lost men stay in guantanamo, we stay in iraq, and new orleans dies?

Re: Darryl Sez:

[anonymous]

Oh no! That was all meant on a PERSONAL level. Governmental blunders are a different matter. We really don't have much of a choice but to work those out. Now, I may sound naive and overly optimistic here, but all this shit will be worked out, provided we don't blow ourselves up first. After all, "the universe is long and curves towards justice."

I'm coming to believe in a kind of political "punctuated equilibrium." As the pendulum swings more and more wildly, the mistakes get bigger, as do the fixes. I'm hoping--and seeing--that the Bush administration's fuck-ups have been so big that the fixes will have to be bigger and better. I'm a betting man, so I'll take the 50-50 odds on that. They can kill thousands of Arabs and US soldiers, but the fuckers cannot kill my hope and faith in good people.

war is over if you want it

[oneken]

thank you for recalling to mind that superb quote which comes, i think, from a superb speech..

your approach has about it something of the magical-mystical. marx posited historical inevitability based on empirical evidence, yoko said if you wish for something to happen it is more likely to occur, and mary travers said her many encouraging emails helped her to get well.

as you say, there's an element of faith here, and imagination.