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talktoolooseBleaah. While we were watching the outrageously disappointing finale of "24" last night, my heart objected to yet more offensive insults to my intelligence by kicking into a really nasty arrhythmia which continued all night and continues still this morning. I'm fine as long as I'm sitting still but I had to actually grab a taxi as I walked towards the subway this morning. Biking? Forget it. I've come close to fainting a few times this morning and that's just not a good idea when riding through traffic. My heart hasn't done anything silly like this since the fall and I'm quite annoyed by it.
I have many things to write about but I think I'll get my draft comment out of my hair. I will begin by saying that I am almost universally opposed to war. In fact, I can't even figure out the situation in which I think it is the right choice. War represents to me a final failure of human reason. People like to talk about justifiable and just wars and use WWII as a good example. I am simply unconvinced that sowing that much destruction can, in the long run, reap anything but grand future violence.
War is profitable business for a few and a chance to grab power for others and these are the people who ultimately push us into war. Just war or not, the leaders are rarely making war for justice. Do good outcomes arise from war? Of course they do. The mobilizations in the west for WWII were big impetuses for the women's movement and it's godson, gay rights. But the reaction against societal change and against the uncertainty of war led to the stultifying 50s which killed many with oppression and paranoia. The Nazis were prevented from taking over much of the world and that's a good thing but the Cold War rose from the battlefields of Europe before the blood was dry. Today, we live with the angry legacy of that 40 year conflict.
(11:18:07 - My heart kicked back to normal during a fight with my supervisor. I feel much better)
America is engaged in a grand experiment of alienation from the world at precisely the time that trade and communication is making us into one world. Another way to say it is that a world community and a world government are on their way. American-based corporate leadership would like to be that government.
Oops, 6:00 p.m. Time to go home. I'll continue tomorrow.
I have many things to write about but I think I'll get my draft comment out of my hair. I will begin by saying that I am almost universally opposed to war. In fact, I can't even figure out the situation in which I think it is the right choice. War represents to me a final failure of human reason. People like to talk about justifiable and just wars and use WWII as a good example. I am simply unconvinced that sowing that much destruction can, in the long run, reap anything but grand future violence.
War is profitable business for a few and a chance to grab power for others and these are the people who ultimately push us into war. Just war or not, the leaders are rarely making war for justice. Do good outcomes arise from war? Of course they do. The mobilizations in the west for WWII were big impetuses for the women's movement and it's godson, gay rights. But the reaction against societal change and against the uncertainty of war led to the stultifying 50s which killed many with oppression and paranoia. The Nazis were prevented from taking over much of the world and that's a good thing but the Cold War rose from the battlefields of Europe before the blood was dry. Today, we live with the angry legacy of that 40 year conflict.
(11:18:07 - My heart kicked back to normal during a fight with my supervisor. I feel much better)
America is engaged in a grand experiment of alienation from the world at precisely the time that trade and communication is making us into one world. Another way to say it is that a world community and a world government are on their way. American-based corporate leadership would like to be that government.
Oops, 6:00 p.m. Time to go home. I'll continue tomorrow.
