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24 March 2010
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Human desparation becomes violent, ( and desolation of the suburbs)
DESOLATION in conflict zones, another DESOLATION in the insolated, dictated suburbs
There are the people who make up a society, a country. And there is a government body, some system of organization, however precarious or strict. Most people just want to live their lives in relative peace and an extent of freedoms: Movement, association, speech. Privacy and room for something sacred to themselves. It is when these possibilities are disrupted, taken away, or simply never present that people become more desparate for their expression of frustration and/or lack of freedoms and privacy and peace. Desparation for entire swathes of people can be seen in their violence or striking out for attention, help, to relieve themselves of the intense stress and strain of a policed, limited, censored lifestyle or slavery or living under violence with limited movement and lack of security of ANYthing.
People are very resilient, patient, can put up with a lot of stress and trouble. People can resist the urge for striking out, for attacking what is tormenting them; whatever they perceive to be tormenting them.
Violence can then function like a mechanism for fraternity. This means that, through collective violent acts and an immerging realization of those with similar frustration and desparation are publically or on some scale revealing their frustration, can bring a group together. When no other inspiration is available, when every other avenue appears to be closed off or destroyed, when there is nothing left to do but die, human beings still search for their „kind“, those that share their feelings.
Levels of comfort and well-being influence, of course, the extent of violence or destruction that can result from desparation of groups of people. Americans, for example, generally have a certain level of living that provides food and shelter. Unfortunately, many American communities, particularly newly-built cities and suburbs, lack public space and areas for people to meet and see eachother. This lack of social contact between groups (lack of spontaneous meetings, unplanned connection) and, I argue, contribute to a lack of essential human contact between people of different income levels, backgrounds, and additionally contributes to a sense of not having the ability to contact others, a desparation for human contact. So, I say, there is a desolation not far from the American mind, my American upbringing. Desolation of another kind exists in conflict or war zones. Desolation is also the strip-malls, the long, wide parkways, all drivers trapped in their own cars, communicating with only their horns and driving actions. (This was not meant to be about me, but this is what I know. ) One’s own perceived „land of the free“ is another’s desolation.
**Many American cities have old centers and newer suburbs. Many city centers are not inhabited, but are places of work and office buildings, places of business. In Memphis, where I come from, the term „white flight“ came into the vocabulary since the 80’s to describe the white population in the city moving to the ever-expanding suburbs due to a perception of increased crime and lack of safety. In these suburbs, people do not walk places; they must drive. The cities and suburbs, for the most part, are built for cars and not humans.
**I have this feeling in Germany. When I feel sealed off at home, or anywhere, even running (in my trance), I do crave a feeling of togetherness or simply being/mulling around with people in the city center. I go and sit down and people are moving around me. There is nothing like this feeling of just being around others; you do not have to talk to them, sit with them, know them. Just to have them there, you know you are a human like them. In Memphis (dare I extend this tot he rest oft he country) there are malls, indoors, and sports events.
Perhaps I could call this the „Red State condition“.
There are the people who make up a society, a country. And there is a government body, some system of organization, however precarious or strict. Most people just want to live their lives in relative peace and an extent of freedoms: Movement, association, speech. Privacy and room for something sacred to themselves. It is when these possibilities are disrupted, taken away, or simply never present that people become more desparate for their expression of frustration and/or lack of freedoms and privacy and peace. Desparation for entire swathes of people can be seen in their violence or striking out for attention, help, to relieve themselves of the intense stress and strain of a policed, limited, censored lifestyle or slavery or living under violence with limited movement and lack of security of ANYthing.
People are very resilient, patient, can put up with a lot of stress and trouble. People can resist the urge for striking out, for attacking what is tormenting them; whatever they perceive to be tormenting them.
Violence can then function like a mechanism for fraternity. This means that, through collective violent acts and an immerging realization of those with similar frustration and desparation are publically or on some scale revealing their frustration, can bring a group together. When no other inspiration is available, when every other avenue appears to be closed off or destroyed, when there is nothing left to do but die, human beings still search for their „kind“, those that share their feelings.
Levels of comfort and well-being influence, of course, the extent of violence or destruction that can result from desparation of groups of people. Americans, for example, generally have a certain level of living that provides food and shelter. Unfortunately, many American communities, particularly newly-built cities and suburbs, lack public space and areas for people to meet and see eachother. This lack of social contact between groups (lack of spontaneous meetings, unplanned connection) and, I argue, contribute to a lack of essential human contact between people of different income levels, backgrounds, and additionally contributes to a sense of not having the ability to contact others, a desparation for human contact. So, I say, there is a desolation not far from the American mind, my American upbringing. Desolation of another kind exists in conflict or war zones. Desolation is also the strip-malls, the long, wide parkways, all drivers trapped in their own cars, communicating with only their horns and driving actions. (This was not meant to be about me, but this is what I know. ) One’s own perceived „land of the free“ is another’s desolation.
**Many American cities have old centers and newer suburbs. Many city centers are not inhabited, but are places of work and office buildings, places of business. In Memphis, where I come from, the term „white flight“ came into the vocabulary since the 80’s to describe the white population in the city moving to the ever-expanding suburbs due to a perception of increased crime and lack of safety. In these suburbs, people do not walk places; they must drive. The cities and suburbs, for the most part, are built for cars and not humans.
**I have this feeling in Germany. When I feel sealed off at home, or anywhere, even running (in my trance), I do crave a feeling of togetherness or simply being/mulling around with people in the city center. I go and sit down and people are moving around me. There is nothing like this feeling of just being around others; you do not have to talk to them, sit with them, know them. Just to have them there, you know you are a human like them. In Memphis (dare I extend this tot he rest oft he country) there are malls, indoors, and sports events.
Perhaps I could call this the „Red State condition“.
Israel and USA
Thinking relatively prevents me from commenting about many things.
Right now, what has been paramount in the press and in my mind and even in conversations with Th, is Israel and, especially now, it’s relationship with the US and with Germany.
What is exciting for me is looking at both German language and English language news about it all—the settlement disputes. German TV has several very good videoblogs on their main television network websites, trying to clarify the row, trying to show what things are really happening.
Netanyahu claims Jews have been building Israel for 3000 years. Israelis participating in the settlement building ask why Obama thinks he can tell them where they cannot build. The US has every right to be involved in telling them what to do, as it is their tax money (and it was my tax money until 2004) that went to defending them and supporting them. I am against using blackmail to get governments to yield to US interests (2003 Bush administration requesting cooperation from Europe, targeting Germany as an ungrateful recipient of American support.) But, we STILL give millions to Israel. The American political (and military) orientation is still behind Israel despite the obvious conflict of interest for American soldiers in the nearby region, per Gen. Petranus)
Demonstrators and international human rights organizations protest in the newest settlement area and seeing the collision of Israeli and Palestinian citizens and activists is immediate. Israel seems to propose that they are „building“, but they are also taking people out of the homes that they themselves built decades ago.
The ARD correspondent asks a Palestinian women standing outside her now-occupied home and explains that she and her family are for living in peace and a two-state solution, but when things like this happen, what is she supposed to do and think. The correspondent them asks the Israeli young man standing inside the house gate what he thinks about what he has done. He simply says that it is a nice big house and turns to leave. The woman is told what the young Israeli has said about her home and she curses him and his family to the skies. This incident is a perfect example of what I imagine to be a constant tug back and forth of hope and hatred. How could one not hate the one who takes over your home and property, leaving you on the street. The sole reason this is possible is because one family is Palestinian and one is Israeli.
I am no expert, but this ... is plain to see
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/dossierzwischenmittelmeerundjordan100.html
Right now, what has been paramount in the press and in my mind and even in conversations with Th, is Israel and, especially now, it’s relationship with the US and with Germany.
What is exciting for me is looking at both German language and English language news about it all—the settlement disputes. German TV has several very good videoblogs on their main television network websites, trying to clarify the row, trying to show what things are really happening.
Netanyahu claims Jews have been building Israel for 3000 years. Israelis participating in the settlement building ask why Obama thinks he can tell them where they cannot build. The US has every right to be involved in telling them what to do, as it is their tax money (and it was my tax money until 2004) that went to defending them and supporting them. I am against using blackmail to get governments to yield to US interests (2003 Bush administration requesting cooperation from Europe, targeting Germany as an ungrateful recipient of American support.) But, we STILL give millions to Israel. The American political (and military) orientation is still behind Israel despite the obvious conflict of interest for American soldiers in the nearby region, per Gen. Petranus)
Demonstrators and international human rights organizations protest in the newest settlement area and seeing the collision of Israeli and Palestinian citizens and activists is immediate. Israel seems to propose that they are „building“, but they are also taking people out of the homes that they themselves built decades ago.
The ARD correspondent asks a Palestinian women standing outside her now-occupied home and explains that she and her family are for living in peace and a two-state solution, but when things like this happen, what is she supposed to do and think. The correspondent them asks the Israeli young man standing inside the house gate what he thinks about what he has done. He simply says that it is a nice big house and turns to leave. The woman is told what the young Israeli has said about her home and she curses him and his family to the skies. This incident is a perfect example of what I imagine to be a constant tug back and forth of hope and hatred. How could one not hate the one who takes over your home and property, leaving you on the street. The sole reason this is possible is because one family is Palestinian and one is Israeli.
I am no expert, but this ... is plain to see
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/dossierzwischenmittelmeerundjordan100.html
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