RE: Please pardon the off-topic message

From: Manning, Keitha (k.manning@tcu.edu)
Date: 09/16/01


We need to return to normal as quickly as possible. Yes, the definition of
normal has been altered, but I would love to read about dance tech content
on this list. The dance-tech postings provide opportunities to focus on
something beside the current events. Dance tech is an oasis in a storm.
Johannes,it appears that you are currently in Germany. We inthe states are
bombarded with media coverage, and much as I try to turn off the TV, I worry
that I'll miss critical information that might affect us once again.
Keitha

>The world was watching the terrible events of last week, but the world
is full of differentiated places, and perceptions about what this attack
intended against the US symbols of financial, military, and
executive/legislative power mean and what might have caused them, and I
think we need to discuss the causes, and the steps necessary for peace,
and not simply claim that everyone is united in rejecting terrorist
acts. The message, as it is written above, is ambivalent, at best, and
simple-minded, at least. As many of us are trying to make sense of what
happened last week, we also fear the perhaps imminent acts that the US
military might devise in a conflict that can not be solved by military
means.

Johannes Birringer
c/o Germany



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