tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362580.post326706811223003997..comments2023-07-04T10:34:08.502+01:00Comments on The Tin Drummer: Nuclear WarBill Haydonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08357811679771159469noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362580.post-27771139496558689002006-12-04T21:02:00.000+00:002006-12-04T21:02:00.000+00:00I believe the seeds are being deliberately sown an...I believe the seeds are being deliberately sown and are linked with seeds from the past, as you intimate. The purpose is to leave the people in a state of trancelike, zombylike, dull fear. <br /><br /><br />I do agree, but I'm not sure why. I understand why a government, especially an incompetent authoritarian one, would do this: but my point is also that even if they didn't want to do it deliberately it would be happening anyway. Does that make sense? Our art is "to shock", our favoured music is just the representation of orgasm in sound, we delight in the theory of zero, in literature at least.<br /><br />The Englishman said to the German: "I am afraid of nothing." The German replied, thoughtfully:"Yes, it must be terrible for you."<br /><br />There is something in the idea that this has broken down, and that we celebrate, even wish for, zero, nothingness, death.<br /><br />Or am I just an old reactionary? OK - I know I am that, but I think there is something in this after all.Bill Haydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08357811679771159469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31362580.post-88804387779256522432006-12-04T20:46:00.000+00:002006-12-04T20:46:00.000+00:00...Without wanting to sound like a 10th rate Jung,......Without wanting to sound like a 10th rate Jung, could there be a concept such as "collective trauma", in which the ever presence of imminent and total destruction would leave its marks long after it had gone? Are we really living in the sunlit uplands of the post-Cold War period, or are we acting out the collective mental disturbances sown in our past?...<br /><br />I believe the seeds are being deliberately sown and are linked with seeds from the past, as you intimate. The purpose is to leave the people in a state of trancelike, zombylike, dull fear. This is an important post.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com