Tuesday, September 11, 2001
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Some Early Responses
Yes, you are correct Timothy and our work is even more urgent. Things will get a lot worse in breakpoint if we cannot help make this shift.
As we transition from the Industrial Age Terrorism, war, violence and death has the potential to increase exponentially. The acts of violence of Sept 11, 2001 as well as the acts of the past 20, years are just the beginning of what can become a hellish road warrior era that could kill hundreds of millions and billions. We have lived in a win/lose era for all of the Industrial Age, however, technology today gives small numbers of individuals, on the losing end of win/lose great power to kill millions of people and bring our civilization to an end.
Barry Carter
Dear Timothy,
I believe that you are quite right about measuring our response to the events of today. There's going to be a lot of reactionary rhetoric. President Bush's first words, (after, "I have spoken with the Vice-President...) were, "This will not stand," which was the Gulf War refrain. Tom Brokaw, on NBC News, said that terrorists have issued a declaration of war against the United States. The fact is, problems that give rise to terrorism must solved first and before the fact, not by lashing out irrationally afterward.
Yours truly,
Ross M. Donald
Timothy, er Neville Chamberlain: You are a FOOL and history has and will show that. If we choose to survive as a free people, we must react firmly to the forces of darkness, as we usually have in the past. Our survival as a species depends on defending ourselves and freedom forcefully, after all freedom is the basis of WinWin and Infinite Wealth. Our reaction to the USS Cole was to send in the attorneys. Look what it got us-disdain.
I have only sympathy for your foolishness and lack of respect for history, Neville. Wake up man
Tom Slater
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Planes hit Trade Center
10:21 a ET
Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, causing one of two towers to collapse, and another aircraft hit the Pentagon in the worst terrorist attack in the nation's history.
As an American whose father was decorated for his service in WWII and whose brother was decorated for service in Viet Nam, I understand the urge to pick up a large weapon and strike back at whoever has chosen to injure my country today. But I think that urge may not be compatible with the long term future of my country and my species...
Timothy
Facing the Truth
Progress + warfare = human extinction.
"No man can regard the way of war as good. It has simply been our way. No man can evaluate the eternal contest of weapons as anything but the sheerest waste and the sheerest folly. It has been simply our only means of
final arbitration" -- Robert Ardrey
Commitment to the adversary way —
We humans are a life form. We must avoid losing at all costs. Most of us embrace human neutrality to avoid losing. But, if our human neutrality fails to protect us from losing, then we will fight. We will fight to surivive. We do not go quietly into that dark night. We will kill to remain alive.
As Time-binding has made human technology evermore powerful, it has made human warfare evermore dangerous. Our species has the deepest of commitments to the adversary way. We humans can choose to change our ways, but do so will require us to examine our past and to understand how we arrived at this crossroad. The human species evolved from the world of animals. Our mother was a space-binder and she embraced the adversary way. Robert Ardrey explains:
"Not in innocence, and not in Asia was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north form the cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about slowly — slowly, ever so slowly — on a sky-swept Savannah glowing with menace.
"In neither bankruptcy nor bastardy did we face our long beginnings. Man’s line is legitimate. Our ancestry is firmly rooted in the animal world, and to its subtle, antique ways our hearts are yet pledged. Children of all animal kind, we inherited many a social nicety as well as the predator’s way. But most significant of all our gifts, as things turned out, was the legacy bequeathed us by those killer apes, our immediate fore bearers. Even in the first long days of our beginnings we held in our hands the weapon, an instrument somewhat older than ourselves."
You can read the full story starting on page 87 of: Crisis: Danger & Opportunity — A Synergic Analysis of the Present