Motivated?
Feel like I should post. It's been almost two years. Perhaps I owe something, perhaps a truth or two. Perhaps something of myself in exchange for every blogger whose ever blogged before. You know, like how where Jodie Foster exposes her vulnerabilities - except with hopefully less silenced lambs. Bad joke, rotten metaphor, sorry.
So an answer perhaps. You may or may not recognise the question.
"What's in it for you, emigre, this blog-counting?"
It would be untruthful to say no diarist ever started without an ulterior motive. Oh yes I had them. And how pure those motives seemed, virtuous. What, leave blog-linking to the self proclaimed "war bloggers"? Ga no, thought I. Ga no, why, I shall link in the name of peace and free-speech! Fight I shall! Neutrally! Courageously! Without weapons! With words! Oh cutting blade, how righteous the pen (yes, I still ballpoint stuff at times. Generally on the backs of old receipts and recycled printer paper). What a battle shall be waged! And how fearless shall I be, speaking truths and outing blogs and inspiring and egging on and logging the unloggable and generally you know, being brave from here behind my pseudonym requiping things that other people think up (always acknowledging sources and cleverly collaging quotes). An all inclusive list of blogs! Thought I. Oh how compelling, that there ought be a blog count. A blog count of diversity! The pro-war linked by no-war (and hopefully vice versa). Surely peace cannot help but spring out across the bridges that surely will be engineered!
But now? Well now I have nothing to prove. Peace cannot be proven, just as war cannot. It's blindingly obvious to anyone with an eye on history that no war is ever just, in that no war is exempt from atrocity. Blindingly obvious that dictators and weak leaders prop themselves up with war, having no other means to convince a population. Despots choose rule by fear, there is no secret in that. And it is equally obvious that people find peace at their own pace. Peace cannot be forced, coerced, artificially replicated or converted into poster boys and pin-up girls. Peace is no rivulet wearing away stone, tempting as it is to believe so. Nor is peace chipped off shoulders or even from old blocks. Peace is not an acronym. So many things peace is not! Is peace an absence then? Of troops perhaps? Well maybe, except that even troop withdrawal is a superficial solution and fails to address the creation of armies and the bodies that will remain long after official forces have shipped out.
Oh well. There you have it, a piece of my mind. I guess I will stick about anyway.
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To commenter 09:53, she is a peace activist you rube (assuming you have reclaimed "rube" and proudly bear ignorance to the point of contrivance).
Nice try moron99 except that every religion has philosophy written into it's core and through this many people of many beliefs have charted common understandings and exchanged words in peace. Peace is a universal language.
Moron99, the religious co-existance of many faiths in one place is an example of peace understood universally.
You propose wars begin when two groups cannot agree on terms, a scenario that has more to do with possessions (tangible owned goods) then with peace (a shared concept). Material assets are frequently dressed in ideological outer garments during war, so it's hardly surprising when certain parties with vested interests begin passing off war as peace.
Peace cannot by it's nature cause war, although many a dear leader will try to convince civilians that peace can be won and "protected" with arms.
"What, leave blog-linking to the self proclaimed "war bloggers"?"
Like your not a "war blogger", or at least this blog is not a war blog? I remember clearly seeing footage and audio of the "war" right here way before I ever started blogging.
Peace blog my ass. Maybe dictator blogging, but peace.
I would guess, moron99, that you are right in assuming you have misunderstood something and I would suggest that perhaps what you have misunderstood is the meaning of peace itself. In all your examples you claim that all these people wanted peace, and yet from your examples it seems clear your types (stereo) have no peace in mind at all but rather the protection of their interests from other parties.
It is most unfortunate, agreed, how forced and shallow all these commenters read after reading emigre.
We shan't be relying on your memory then madtom, because a thorough search of the archives reveals no audio war footage has ever been published on this blog. Lyrics yes, links yes, and even in recent months an occasional mp3 theme tune. But audio footage of war no. I'm not even sure actually that any of the blogs linked here have published more than a handful of audio links between them. Emigre doesn't cut it as a war blogger and never will, she is far too busy stopping to peer into the gloom and listen to her spooks. She only manages to recreate links to other people's articles and is so plagued by dalliance and fantasy that her idealistic entreaties could never be considered factually. I doubt she ever validates her sources. While every other blogger is reality based Emigre's reality is utterly base-less.
Bt interloper, Anon, Francisco, Jeffreyinawig, whoever you are, stop faking it.
And one more thing moron99 it's not very nice picking on other people's stilted style because for all you know Anon 07:21 has three kids, dinner to prepare and a home business to run and probably doesn't spend as much time as you do channeling your inner bull stream. It's not Anon 07:21's fault if he or she can't communicate as eloquently as the communist elite who spend every waking moment dined on hand and foot while agitating, just as it's not anyone else's fault for being born disabled by the crippling and self-centered belief that everyone thinks him ugly or her stupid or that zion is an asset not a dream. In fact if you ask me that's where America went all wrong, when it got its assets confused with its dream. Just like you have moron99, getting your peace all mixed up with war and ownership but I won't be blaming you for that as you have admitted to moronity already even if you are a marxist and even if you do hate god.
Do you mean to say, it has taken a whole day or more, one madman and at least 4 comments, moron99, to work your way to that conclusion?
I would add that tolerance is reached sooner when peoples bellies are full and everyone has a room of his own.
Lucky there are so many different ideas about peace. Let me see, so far on this thread,
1. Tolerance
2. Tolerance
3. Tolerance
4. An end to all poverty.
Wow. Quite a list. And a good thing too, otherwise some of us might be half bored to tears from lack of diversity. Downside though, I can see your point moron99, there could be quite a bit of confusion around this rather complex menu.
O sacred Friendship, who in urgent flight
And leaving here on earth your guileful ghost
Exultant soared to that empyrean height
To dwell in glory with the heavenly host
From there to show us, when you think it best
Behind a veil that peace for which we long
A veil that other times betrays a zest
For doing good, which then does vicious wrong:
Come back from heaven, Friendship:
don’t agree
To the destruction of sincere intent
When fraudulence parades your livery;
For if his base charade has your consent
Grim-visaged war will win the world again
And dark primeval anarchy will reign.
- Quadineo
I'm afraid you just haven't been reading here long enough, but they are there, images of planes dropping bombs and the sound file of the pilots reacting to the kill. Ask Emigre, I'm sure she could help you find the post.
You'll also find my comments there too.
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