For me it's resonating with Nazism; yes, I feel back for the Russian soldiers, but under the circumstances, they're butchers destroying a people and a country... The good solution or right answer might be for them to defect and/or for Putin to call the whole thing off, but that's not going to happen; after all, he identifies with Peter the Great. -
Best, Alan - On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 2:25 PM Edward Picot <edw...@edwardpicot.com> wrote: > What alarms me is that I find myself hoping the west will deliver heavy > artillery to Ukraine in time to stop the Donbas region being overrun - > but of course that means I'm really hoping for a lot of Russian soldiers > to get killed, enough for them to get deterred and stop their advance. > As if a load of Russians being killed was acceptable, because those guys > are the bad guys. But there are no good solutions any more, no right > answers. > > Edward > > > On 6/14/22 5:47 AM, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote: > > > > > > A Slip of the Tongue > > > > http://www.alansondheim.org/buildings.jpg > > > > -- > I wrote the following satirical piece after using images > > from traffic and route applications, as a way of dealing with > > my own desire to leave the city I'm in. I was not, did not, > > think about Ukraine, not this time; I was thinking about > > Lowell, Mass.; we had just returned. All right. But that is > > insufficient. How much time should we devote to thinking about > > the butchery of Ukraine? How should we approach that? The > > images that we see now, in this stage of the slaughter, are > > worse, if that is possible, than some of the earlier; now the > > policy is scorched earth and total universal destruction > > within a region, the planet be damned. So that what I wrote > > below is preposterous, a satire where there ultimately there > > is none. Yet I wake in the morning often weeping at the > > thought of my own oblivion, my own isolation. It's not that I > > feel I should be "grateful" for what I have, but that what I > > have is irrelevant, as long as the world devours the world. > > There is no way to deal with this. I suggest again and again > > on a practical level to donate, speak out, do what one can, > > but always remember we are here and what is there is, in a > > sense inconceivable to us, not withstanding the daily images > > available to everyone outside of Russia. > > > > Again, I wasn't thinking at all about this, when it should > > perhaps for the most part be at the top of what we think about > > or at least we should not give us the luxury of forgetting it. > > Not now, and we should have had the same lack with Syria, with > > the Uyghur territories, with our response to Iraq, to Vietnam, > > to a litany of so many actions that as the Republicans might > > say, there are folders full of them. > > > > I don't want to deprecate my own work; that's for others to > > do. But I want to draw a line through this piece in relation > > to an emptiness which can only be full/filled by considering > > what it becomes with this introduction as the slaughter in > > Ukraine overshadows everything else we might be thinking about > > or through in our work or daily lives: > > > > "Help! Help! Get us out of here! > > > > http://www.alansondheim.org/Getusoutofhere.jpg > > > > Here we are! Now get us out of here! > > We, who have done so much (nothing!) for you! > > Get us out of here! > > We are dying in traffic! No! We are just dying! > > Read my books! Listen to our music! Watch my videos! > > Watch our videos! Get us out of here and we will never! > > Never! Never! Bother you again! Such humiliation! > > Such a waste of human talent! Us! Here! > > Now get us out of here! Get us out of here!" > > > > http://www.alansondheim.org/buildings.jpg > > > > Get us out: of here: of this transmission. > > > > __ > > > > > > We're in Providence, image from Lowell. > > > > __ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *=====================================================* *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel 347-383-8552**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* *=====================================================*
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