Re: separate list needed?

[bruno kleinefeld <brunoklein@ideastudioweb.com>]

Title: Re: separate list needed?

Roberto.

grazie per il tuo intervento lucido.

I agree totally with you.

but it's also important to take part

of things, as human beings and as musicians.

I was in a way expecting to read something today

on the list: i would have been very disappointed

if nobody would have say something

on such a horrible thing that is devastating

so many lives and it's going to affect oll of us

in ways we're not yet able to determinate

But any discussion must follow the line of respect.

I think we have a task that we can't fail:

we, as a small group, must give the example

and demonstrate that a pacific, tollerant

and rational discussion is possibile.

In the list, if we want, or in any other place

of our world.

> Dear all
>
> May I suggest that if many of us wish to continue the discussion
> following
> yesterday's unspeakable atrocity we open a separate list?
> It is an important subject but I don't think Looper's delight is
> the
> appropriate place for it, I don't know if others agree.
>
> In some of the recent messages on the subject I can already see
> some
> worrying signs of intolerance and short-sighted blame arising. Please,
> let's
> not be blinded by the events and reproduce on a smaller scale the same
> roots
> of evil, this group can do better than that!
> If even a group of seemingly intelligent and open minded people like
> those
> on this list can't discuss without accusing each other, what hopes can
> we
> have to live in a better world in the future?
>
> Sadly we can't do anything for those who lost their lives yesterday
> and
> little we can do to save the lives of those who will inevitably (I
> wish to
> be proved wrong on this point) suffer the consequences, some of whom
> will
> equally be innocent civilians.
>
> What we can do is try to understand and do the little we can to
> contribute
> to a better world.
>
> Pointing the finger to Communists or Fascists, Americans or Russians,
> Islam
> or Judaism will do nothing but perpetuate a perverse system.
> If we could distance ourselves for a moment from the cruelty of the
> event
> and from our individual cultural background we should be able to see
> the
> picture of a greater design, of historical events that brought us to
> this
> point. No one is totally innocent, no one started it all. It is a
> mechanism
> that evolved in the centuries, it is based on some inherent human
> characteristics, there are plenty of reasons to explain (not justify)
> and
> connect events, plenty of models to illustrate it.
> Also, and more importantly, there are alternative ways, there would be
> a
> chance to live differently and better.
> We need to understand first and then act.
>
> Roberto
>
>
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