Monday, May 7, 2007
Pardon The Interruption
Apologies for the light blogging lately. I've rediscovered sleep and exercise after both went on hiatus for several months. Unfortunately, my obscene workload for my TEFL class means that I have less time to spend online. On the bright side, however, it looks like my class will help to streamline my writing. Studying the English language and learning how to teach it are better ways to develop good writing habits than writing endless academic papers, even, sadly, English papers.
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These are some of the words of former General, Lee Butler: "I have no other way of understanding the willingness to condone nuclear weapons except to believe that they are the natural accomplices of visceral enmity. They thrive in the emotional climate born of utter alienation and isolation. The unbounded wantonness of their effects is a perfect companion to the urge to destroy completely. They play on our deepest fears and pander to our darkest instincts. They corrode our sense of humanity, numb our capacity for moral outrage and make thinkable the unimaginable."
"The Cold War lives on in the minds of those who cannot let go the fears, the beliefs and the enmities born of the nuclear age. They cling to deterrence, clutch its tattered promise to their breast, shake it wistfully at bygone adversaries and balefully at new or imagined ones. They are gripped still by its awful willingness not simply to tempt the apocalypse but to prepare its way."
All this from a general? If only some of our English and Philosophy professors wrote this well.
No kidding! That's powerful stuff. Thanks, Daniel.
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