Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
The "endgame" is upon us
Ah, terrorism. Do two wrongs make a right in this case? If so, why?
I’ve been tour-guiding my dearly beloved sister-friend from Santa Cruz and her daughter around town. We did the bat-colony exit thing last night...watching the 1.5 million bats exit the Congress Avenue bridge expasnion joints at dusk...and they were completely enthralled and thrilled. I’ve seen it often enough that I was a little blase. Then I saw the rapture on their faces, one woman 60 and the other 40, grown adults with kids and families and jobs and...and they were unabashedly crying with awe and amazement. Didn’t cry myownself, but I was renewed in my sense of the wonder of it all.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/30 at 08:21 AMGreat story on a day when Jensen is featured, Mudge. I thought this excerpt would provoke more than a few debates...but where is everyone?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/30 at 02:07 PM@ MZ - It’s Tuesday, so I assume everyone is back to work… Likewise for me: it’s the end-of-the-month scramble to pay the damn rent, etc. (or else dwell under a bridge for a while)...
@ Mudge - speaking of bridges… I too have been to Austin to see them all emerge - what a sight! Carlsbad Caverns (NM) is another. Amazing creatures they are.
Posted by RT on from The Armpit of the Gulf Coast 05/30 at 03:01 PMWhat a great story by Derrick Jensen, Mickey! Thanks for sharing it with your readers. Here is a great piece he wrote in 2002:
http://www.contextbooks.com/waroniraq/weneedawar.html
Hope the link still works.And hello from a cool but sunny Daylesford to you, Mudge. Re Edmund White: he really is one swell guy.
Ciao amici ..
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 05/30 at 03:03 PMSorry but the link does not seem to work - will try to google the piece ..
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 05/30 at 03:05 PMAnd hello to RT as well. I’m back - could not find that piece by Derrick Jensen but here is a good interview with him:
http://www.derrickjensen.org/stauber.htmlAuf Wiederemailen
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 05/30 at 03:15 PMI think that threats were absolutely justified in this case...to dump agent orange on people is an outright attack. Of course, it is an attack on life in general dumping that stuff anywhere...perhaps, in certain cases, violence or threats of violence are justified and most importantly...effective.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 05/30 at 03:59 PMThe threats are only implied, of course, but it remains a powerful lesson...whether we agree with the method or not.
Captcha sez: trouble.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/30 at 05:08 PMG’night, all...maybe we can pick up on this topic tomorrow, if possible.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/30 at 08:38 PMJust got home, and so missed most of the day here...but not much of a busy one, eh?
JOS, if one threatens violence, is one morally different from the perpetrators?
RT, you know that Carlsbad’s bat-o-rama is gonna be amazing because well it’s a CAVERN, but a bridge over the busy-all-day main drag of a city of 750,000? That’s just weird.
Helga, the fact that it’s cool sets my heart to pining. Daylesford ho! Auf Wiederemailen, gnadige Frau.
MZ, wow. Provocative stuff and no one’s around to provoke! If a tree falls in a forest....
xoxo
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/30 at 09:02 PMIt was intriguing reading, but so tired, worked at yet another new job today, then another dentist appt, now still screwing with the air conditioner… unnnnnnn, good night!
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 05/30 at 11:56 PMMudge!
I like cool better than hot, too - might be due to a slight ‘weight problem’. It is always a few degrees cooler in Daylesford than in Melbourne - when we first moved here almost 2 years ago, out came the coats and jackets which we had hardly ever used in ‘marvellous Melbourne’.Auf Wiederemailen - maybe even auf Wiedersehen one day - in Texas or Australia, gnaediger Herr!
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 06/01 at 02:30 PM
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