Re: Purpose of MEMORIES
PETE KLAMMER (PKLAMMER@castle.cudenver.edu)
Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:57:43 -0700
> > Tom - Am I wrong about the purpose of the list? If so, I need to unsubsribe.
>
> No. But I take Ed Behrendt's point about censorship; I
> don't want to exclude contributions because I disagree
> with them. At the same time I think that we will run
> into serious problems with the project if we start to
> submit messages based on the idea of BLAME and ACCUSATION.
>
> The project is about the effects of war on civilians, and
> suggestions that we should test atomic weapons by dropping
> them on Berlin are entirely out of order.
If I may suggest some lemonade to be made from these lemons: one of the
effects of war on civilians (and combatants) is to make them bitter and
prejudiced, perhaps for the rest of their lives, to the point that they fail
to see the possibilities for good around them, and continue to seek chances
for revenge long after hostilities have ceased. You have a muckraker here,
with a mind that has been poisoned by the injuries of warfare; and now he
seeks to spread the poison and rouse a few like-minded malcontents to strike
back at ``them'' -- whoever ``they'' happen to be today. He makes a fine
exhibit: a specimen you should hold up to your students, but with long tongs
and sanitary gloves on! ``See, children? This is also what war produces!
It lives in your midst. Learn to recognize living hatred; guard youselves
against it. The seeds of war don't live in paint slogans on walls, or even
in the words on electonic bulletin boards; no, the seeds of war lie in men's
hearts, full of hate, like this one.''
Peter F. Klammer PKlammer@ACM.Org
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