Inspect. - London
What else could it be? Utter confusion is on my mind, as it seems to be customary in such situations. By now, just like Virginia Woolf looking at her mother's dead body, I can barely feel anything. It's ironic, but we talked with B. (studying at UC London, living in Camden) about the war on terror and it's presence in London, how he's avoiding crowded places, surrounding himself with Arabs from various countries, and not taking the tube train (because it's to expensive for him, so he isn't directly motivated by fear).
But the people and the security forces have been surprisingly calm and prepared. That's something. And because of this level of preparedness it would be slightly out of place to talk about how people should realize that the current systems (whether political, economical or social...including sub-categories like education, culture, finances or simple everyday lifestyle) lack certain awareness and should be changed. One feels small - so small, one even is paralyzed by the thought of it. Taking mass action is out of question; initiating change is hardly ever possible on a global level, see Live8 - G8-summit. One is not part of the big picture, not even a dot in it. The system is not made up for this not-even-a-dot, but he is to feed the system, even unwillingly or unconsciously. Classical Anarchism has some point, saying that the only solution could be the permanent revolution abolishing all the ill-working systems.
One example - quite in connection with today's London incident: information travels faster in unorganized (civilian) ways.
But Anarchism is kind of hypocritical as well; sadly enough. Considering the action taken by the youths protesting against globalization [many neo-Stalinists and neo-Maoists, poor, silly things] in Glasgow: what do they use to create uproar? Organized media, of course. [and they shop at TESCO, dress from H&M and watch the news on a Sony TV.]
But, on a personal note, Anarchism doesn't really (fully) exclude religious ideas - as it doesn't use Marx-Hegel-Kant as a basis to build ideology upon. It just suggest new ways of personal faith. So, these thoughts are rather contradictional or anachronistic. Oh, I feel I really should refresh my poor knowledge on the topic.
Back to London. Or rather the reactions given to the attacks: Blair was rather surprising as well. Compared to 9/11, which I had the opportunity to follow live on CNBC back then. [As I skipped a talk with Mr. Naftali Kraus, because of feeling sick. that really is something I couldn't forget. And then dramaturgically, the same happened as today. I turned on the radio, listened to the news, hesitated on turning on the TV, then followed the details anxiously. Last year's Madrid-attack was kind of different as my great-grandma had died 2 days before. I was not interested...simply.] Blair reacted rather quickly, if not fast.
Only the media presentation was a bit overdone: sending there CNN's Christian Amanpour and Nick Robertson, both of them specialized on war-reports is kind of harsh.
I don't know anything, I have to realize it time to time. But there's one thing I'd like to: where the hell is the lady disappeared for whom I did the translation. My fee is rather high, and I'm not a sister of mercy by any means. I respect her disabledness, but, come on, I sent her the last pages on Friday, since then she hasn't sent even a word of thanking. Or confirmation of receiving stuff from me.
By now I should finish the essay on Tokyo Babylon and begin translating the commentaries. I'm dreaming about fluffy webdesigns - but I over-control it, saying, it shouldn't be that fluffy. Sakura, kimono, etc. The columns should be wide enough, to S. can read the reviews ^.^
But the people and the security forces have been surprisingly calm and prepared. That's something. And because of this level of preparedness it would be slightly out of place to talk about how people should realize that the current systems (whether political, economical or social...including sub-categories like education, culture, finances or simple everyday lifestyle) lack certain awareness and should be changed. One feels small - so small, one even is paralyzed by the thought of it. Taking mass action is out of question; initiating change is hardly ever possible on a global level, see Live8 - G8-summit. One is not part of the big picture, not even a dot in it. The system is not made up for this not-even-a-dot, but he is to feed the system, even unwillingly or unconsciously. Classical Anarchism has some point, saying that the only solution could be the permanent revolution abolishing all the ill-working systems.
One example - quite in connection with today's London incident: information travels faster in unorganized (civilian) ways.
But Anarchism is kind of hypocritical as well; sadly enough. Considering the action taken by the youths protesting against globalization [many neo-Stalinists and neo-Maoists, poor, silly things] in Glasgow: what do they use to create uproar? Organized media, of course. [and they shop at TESCO, dress from H&M and watch the news on a Sony TV.]
But, on a personal note, Anarchism doesn't really (fully) exclude religious ideas - as it doesn't use Marx-Hegel-Kant as a basis to build ideology upon. It just suggest new ways of personal faith. So, these thoughts are rather contradictional or anachronistic. Oh, I feel I really should refresh my poor knowledge on the topic.
Back to London. Or rather the reactions given to the attacks: Blair was rather surprising as well. Compared to 9/11, which I had the opportunity to follow live on CNBC back then. [As I skipped a talk with Mr. Naftali Kraus, because of feeling sick. that really is something I couldn't forget. And then dramaturgically, the same happened as today. I turned on the radio, listened to the news, hesitated on turning on the TV, then followed the details anxiously. Last year's Madrid-attack was kind of different as my great-grandma had died 2 days before. I was not interested...simply.] Blair reacted rather quickly, if not fast.
Only the media presentation was a bit overdone: sending there CNN's Christian Amanpour and Nick Robertson, both of them specialized on war-reports is kind of harsh.
I don't know anything, I have to realize it time to time. But there's one thing I'd like to: where the hell is the lady disappeared for whom I did the translation. My fee is rather high, and I'm not a sister of mercy by any means. I respect her disabledness, but, come on, I sent her the last pages on Friday, since then she hasn't sent even a word of thanking. Or confirmation of receiving stuff from me.
By now I should finish the essay on Tokyo Babylon and begin translating the commentaries. I'm dreaming about fluffy webdesigns - but I over-control it, saying, it shouldn't be that fluffy. Sakura, kimono, etc. The columns should be wide enough, to S. can read the reviews ^.^