From owner-wryting-l@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Thu Mar 20 23:58:43 2003 From paragram Thu Mar 20 23:58:43 2003 Return-Path: Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.0) for paragram@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 20 Mar 2003 23:58:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by Mail.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from cherry.ease.lsoft.com (209.119.0.109) with esmtp id ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 23:58:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <20.0093D128@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:58:17 -0500 Received: from LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA by LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 435956 for WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:57:52 -0500 Received: from greenback.hotkey.net.au ([202.138.0.50] HELO pop.hotkey.net.au ident: qmailr [port 42671]) by lserv2.ns.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <930840-11787>; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:57:50 -0500 Received: (qmail 18157 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2003 22:32:06 -0000 Received: from 097.a.001.syd.iprimus.net.au (HELO semantic) (210.50.68.97) by greenback.hotkey.net.au with SMTP; 20 Mar 2003 22:32:06 -0000 X-Sender: netwurker@pop.hotkey.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Orcpt: rfc822;WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20030321093732.02172cb0@pop.hotkey.net.au> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:37:32 +1100 Reply-To: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" Sender: "WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" From: "a][nti][nglo.cubic" Subject: Re: Get your "NO WAR" To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Precedence: list X-UIDL: #HC!!Z%8!!,D@!!(Pe"! At 06:20 AM 20/03/03 -0800, you wrote: > >" If nothing else, you can examine your own brain patterns before, >during and after the event." > >i agree! really, it's the only way an artist can approach it--- + offering a social filter aler.ting[le?] >the thing about war and anti-war activitsts is, it becomes (horribly) (thematically) more trend than content--putting up a NO WAR page is not going to accomplish anything at all ???????? how dare u make this claim, LL? can u d.termine the paths + passages of info-impacts? [help.less.ness_is_KNOT_d.termined_by_flippant_egoship!!!] bah! [is yr writing powerless due 2 its target audience niche? is this trawling + dispersal "not going to accomplish anything at all"] :| >(you can make the claim that it will provide information about the situation by linking to various news sources, but don't you think anyone really interested in this woulda sniffed that stuff out already?)-- so literal, LL. *sighing_thru_my_lateral_mouth* >i agree with t.whid////i'm against this war primarily because it will provoke more anger from an already angry (rightfully so) population------i'm also against it because of the very dangerous ideology george w. bush has been using---it's an ideology firmly entrenched in its own snug corner of the world---there's an axis of evil because there are political ideologies different from american capitalism---this is comic-book logic--- > & wot re: the banal logic of the assumer? + cloaked apathy + n.gendered blockages of [symbolic] action stances that u c.k 2 w[ord]ash away above? [symptomatically + author.ity occulsions] pfft. >probably the most useful thing we can do is be kind to each other, and to especially be kind to muslims here in the US (they've had a tough time since 911!!!!)----understanding and kindness are ALWAYS more effective than bombs----THAT'S a helluva lot more effective than a NO WAR page---- > + b AWARE of [y]our own baggage + remove_the_judgement_need[les] >we can also be watchful of civil liberties in this age of heightened security---i had a moroccan friend a while back who was a muslim----when i brought up the ACLU, he smiled and said, yes, this is why we come to your country----this is what we should keep in mind....america is only as great as the manifestation of that ideal--- > ..+ the accumulation of that ideal silt in bobs + filtered patches. *head shake.ages* mez ===*: Target left PEACENet. Failed to deliver: [+ 33 other coun.t.ires] ===*: Target left SANITYNet. Failed to deliver: [good]