[Nettime-bold] the war comes home..

[JSalloum@aol.com (by way of Pit Schultz <pit@klubradio.de>)]

[..]

Feeling caught between emotions and logic. I have been off of Nettime for 
quite
awhile because what was being sent was increasingly irrelevant to me and my
work and every time I tried to interject it usually just garnered more flack
than it was worth. In the past few days I have received many articles by
Chomsky et al regarding the 'attacks' and have deleted each and every one of
them (after reading them). I have also received an equal amount of email from
N. American Arab and Islamic groups and organizations that are fearful for
their lives and reports of the ever increasing racist attacks that they are
incurring, they are closing their schools and trying to  keep their children
at home. And several times a day friends are sending me their accounts of
what was going through their lives while either being in or near ground zero
in nyc or asking me what was going on here and with me for the ones living
even further abroad. It seems I need to keep a space on my hard drive and
brain free of the clutter and deluge of fear, sadness, bigotry, hate,
paranoia, ignorance, and dread. The airwaves are full of all forms of
simplistic rationalizing of the events, and the need for utter and complete
'retaliation'. As throughout conflicts like this (and this one didn't start
on Tuesday) the use of language is the most impressive and depressing of
scenes, the total manipulation that occurs is a scary thing. Many on the
streets feel confident and justified in any attacks on arab like individuals
while the cops stand and watch. Tomorrow is a day of mourning in Canada, I
will be mourning for all the atrocities of the last 500+ years and for the
next which do not appear to be any less devastating.

To illustrate the language of the major terrorists, Noam Chomsky quotes, St.
Augustine telling the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great who
asked him, "How he dares molest the sea".  ‘How dare you molest the whole
world?’, the pirate replied: "because I do it with a little ship only, I am
called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an Emperor."
(Pirates & Emperors: Int’l Terrorism in the Real World).

If I find any lucid articles coming to me I'll forward them on.

best wishes,
Jayce

-- 
Jayce Salloum


http://www.lot.at/politics/contributions/s_jayce1.htm
http://www.argosarts.org/exhibition-salloum.html
http://www.eurovision2000.net/video/video012.html
http://www.arabfilm.com/item/150/
http://www.arabfilm.com/item/141/
http://www.arabfilm.com/item/79/
http://194.109.218.115/data/pl0062.html
http://www1.centrepompidou.fr/beware/fr_cult/jidal.html  (French text)


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