From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 00:51:53 MDT
Eli wrote:
>just because it's so unbearable to think that the Americans
>can bomb and bomb and never be touched themselves.
...the most telling remark I've seen anyone make yet. I wonder how many
Americans can comprehend this asymmetry--that until now, the ocean and
technology kept the USA insulated from the customary psychic economy of
tit-for-tat reprisals. I'm surprised that more megaviolence hasn't been
infiltrated from the southern borders, but then the incessant drug traffic
etc, and the monstrously misjudged legal response to it, has probably done
more to fuck up and corrode America than any number of smashed buildings
and murdered innocents.
I note, BTW, that Eliezer shared his 22nd birthday with that dreadful event
on Tuesday. With luck, the former fact will live even longer in human and
posthuman memory than the latter.
Damien Broderick
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