Are Flagan on Sun, 13 Oct 2002 01:53:02 +0200 (CEST) |
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How and what to talk about in times of war when oil runs thicker than blood and humanity is composed as a spreadsheet: Once upon a time I found myself at the public address given by the Dalai Lama after his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Price. Following the customary introductions, he stepped up to the podium and simply stood there, quite still, for what seemed like an eternity. Anyone (and I spoke to a few people afterward) who has ever had the "pleasure" of being singled out before a crowd was experiencing the same panic attacks due to the unexpected silence. Then, just as we were about to burst into fits of filling this void, he broke into a beaming smile that had everyone smiling back in blissful relief. The talk that eventually followed was broken by English, so, as far as I can recall, no treaties were signed, no ideological contracts were negotiated, and no resume or recipe for peace was advocated. Only one word was joyfully repeated to the extent that I can quote anything at all from what was said: compassion. -af # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net