11. september nekoliko drugače

Ok, še filozofov pogled na 11. september + cyberspace + dileme post postmodernizma


'The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other'

Nekaj citatov za degustacijo:

"The most dangerous thing today is just to flow with things."

"This notion of tolerance effectively masks its opposite: intolerance."

O multikulturalizmu:

"What about my friends who say: 'We must respect Hindus.' Okay, but what about one of the old Hindu customs which, as we know, is that when a husband dies, the wife is burned. Now, do we respect that? Problems arise here."

O politični korektnosti (in obveznem nasilju - nekaj podobnega sva se s Thomasom pogovarjala glede konfliktnosti v sodelovanju):

"You cannot do the game of erotic seduction in politically correct terms."

In še nazadnje že nam znane banalnosti o terorizmu:

"There is something so disturbingly tragic in this idea of the wealthiest country in the world bombing one of the poorest countries. It reminds me of the well-known joke about the idiot who loses a key in the dark and looks for it beneath the light. When asked why, he says: 'I know I lost it over there, but it's easier to look for it here.'"

"But at the same time I must confess that the left also deeply disappointed me. Falling back into this safe pacifist attitude - violence never stops violence, give peace a chance - is abstract and doesn't work here. First, because this is not a universal rule. I always ask my leftist friends who repeat that mantra: What would you have said in 1941 with Hitler. Would you also say: 'We shouldn't resist, because violence never helps?' It is simply a fact that at some point you have to fight. You have to return violence with violence. The problem is not that for me, but that this war can never be a solution."

"It is also false and misleading to perceive these bombings as some kind of third world working-class response to American imperialism. In that case, the American fundamentalists we already discussed, are also a working-class response, which they clearly are not. We face a challenge to rethink our coordinates and I hope that this will be a good result of this tragic event. That we will not just use it to do more of the same but to think about what is really changing in our world."

Še kot zanimivost: do identičnega zaključka, da namreč ne gre za spopad med civilizacijami ampak, da lahko opazujemo trenja med fundamentalizmom in tolerantnostjo tudi na Zahodu (tudi pri nas in tudi na tem forumu) - in da bomo morali to dilemo razrešiti končno tudi pri sebi - je prišel še en filozof v Ampaku (mislim,da Ivan Urbančič).

Pa prijetno branje.