From: Christopher Whipple (byteboy@rpa.net)
Date: Fri Jul 10 1998 - 10:48:44 MDT
Guns as tools?
Well, they certainly are working agents in memetics. "You change your
ideality, or I'll shoot you", hey - who needs bait and switch?
Seriously, I'm placing this question of guns on the same tier as the
racial problems in the world today. Both are self-perpetuating nightmares,
that if you ask any 'normal' individual, you'll find to be unwanted.
How does this situation self-perpetuate? Isn't that the ultimate virus?
Well, let's think about this one... I once posted to this list about an
essay on slavery, eventually I finished my essay on Emmanuel Eze's take on
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.... So what? Well, Eze came to the
conclusion that the problem remains because we attempt to fight it too much.
Hatred begets hatred, violence begets violence and guns beget guns...
As has been proved on this list. "I'd rather be more well-stocked than my
opponent". While I suppose that works on an individual level, that will
NEVER get rid of the problem on the massive level that 'we' want to see.
Perhaps martyrdom is what's best in this situation. For I know, that as
important I view my life to be, I'd rather be killed by a gun, than be
forced to kill another. I don't own a gun, I don't WANT to own a gun....
yet I feel secure in the knowledge that I'm actually living my ideology. I
don't like guns, or the gun problem, so I'm living the solution - setting
the example.
As with racial problems, the gun problem is NOT a superficial one. It's
my belief that it boils down to the level of basic human nature. While Eze
wrote his paper of "post-racial politics", he was contradicting his own
thesis - he couldn't leave the race issue alone. My paper, which received
an A+ btw (smile) - talked of "post-human nature". Is this what we need?
I apologize for my ramblings.
-c
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