AUT: Re: Inventive Anti-war stuff

["chris wright" <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pretty cool.

Cheers,
Chris

"Every enhancement of the type "man" has so far been the work of an
aristocratic society-and it will be so again and again -a society that
believes in the long ladder of an order of rank and differences in value
between man and man, and that needs slavery in some sense or other. Without
that pathos of distance which grows out of the ingrained difference between
strata-when the ruling caste constantly looks afar and looks down upon
subjects and instruments and just as constantly practices obedience and
command, keeping down and keeping at a distance-the other, more mysterious
pathos could not have grown up either-the craving for an ever new widening
of distances within the soul itself, the development of ever higher, rare,
more remote, further-stretching, more comprehensive states-in brief, simply
the enhancement of the type "man," the continual "self-overcoming of man,"
to use a moral formula in a supra-moral sense."  - Nietzsche, Beyond Good
and Evil, Aphorism 257

"life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of what is
alien and weaker; suppression, hardness, imposition of one's own forms,
incorporation and at least, at its mildest, exploitation... "Exploitation"
does not belong to a corrupt or imperfect and primitive society: it belongs
to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a
consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will of life." Aph.
259

"This is the problem of race. Granted that one knows something of the
parents, it is admissible to draw a conclusion about the child: any kind of
offensive incontinence, any kind of sordid envy; or of clumsy
self-vaunting-the three things which together have constituted the genuine
plebeian type in all times-such must pass over to the child, as surely as
bad blood; and with the help of the best education and culture one will only
succeed in deceiving with regard to such heredity.- And what else does
education and culture try to do nowadays! In our very democratic, or rather,
very plebeian age, "education" and "culture" must be essentially the art of
deceiving-deceiving with regard to origin, with regard to the inherited
plebeianism in body and soul. An educator who nowadays preached truthfulness
above everything else, and called out constantly to his pupils: "Be true! Be
natural! Show yourselves as you are!"-even such a virtuous and sincere ass
would learn in a short time to have recourse to the furca of Horace, naturam
expellere: with what results? "Plebeianism" usque recurret. [Allusion to
Horace's Epistles, I. 10, 24: "Try with a pitchfork to drive out nature, she
always returns."]" Aph. 264




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From: "Thomas Seay" <entheogens@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:39 PM
Subject: AUT: Inventive Anti-war stuff


> BLUE EARTH, MINN. -- They are only two people, two
> lonely voices raised
>                       on the southern Minnesota
> prairie, but they are gaining notice -- as
>                       much for the novelty of their
> actions as for the content of their
>                       cries.
>
>                       "This is something you don't
> normally see in a small town," Mayor Rob
>                       Hammond said, sounding both
> nervous and amused. "This is the first
>                       demonstration we've ever had."
>
>                       Mark Walker Jr., 16, had sat
> patiently through three meetings with the
>                       Blue Earth City Council to
> obtain a permit to demonstrate his
>                       opposition
>                       to a war with Iraq. He plans to
> spend 24 hours this weekend speaking,
>                       handing out leaflets and
> sleeping in a box at a downtown intersection,
>                       homeless for a night to
> dramatize a war's social costs.
>
>                       City leaders initially demurred,
> citing a curfew law that requires
>                       people under 18 to be off the
> streets by midnight. But Walker read the
>                       curfew law carefully and found
> that it doesn't apply in cases where
>                       young people are out late to
> exercise rights protected by the U.S.
>                       Constitution.
>
>                       (...)
>
>
> http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3610530.html
>
>
>
> =====
> <<Be like me!  The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally impelling
into life,
>     eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>>
>     -Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"
>
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