As a very little boy I learned of my patron saint’s story: Child Saint Dominic Savio intervened between two warring families (Think of “Romeo and Juliet”) and brought them to sensible dialogue. That touched me. Our soon to be Prime Minister had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for having organized UN military forces to intervene in the “Suez Crisis”. I was just very young, but that made sense. What I couldn’t explain to myself? why France was inserting itself to violently re-impose colonialism in Indo-China, after WWII. (As a French Canadian, that came home to me. Also, I was born 5MAY1954. Dien Bien Phu surrened 2 days after my birth.) Fore-shadowing the ghastly war to come.
Hungary … Soviet tanks rolling in to crush democracy. Chile … no assistance in overthrowing the mafia regime, but an invasion to crush the new administration, which effectly put that people’s history into the Soviet sphere.
1960s … murderous in every way.
I turned to Canadian military as a way of turning away from bourgeois society and culture. (My thinking was simply this: perhaps our society would be less bloody-minded if we effectively interdicted Soviet assets to drive them back.)
I didn’t tangle with consumerism and the abuse of Freudian psychiatry. Above my pay grade! I did tangle with “culture wars” … as far back as 1970s. All I could think of was how everyone around me, schoolyard and later, always indulged or at least ignored bullies and other villains.
”Malicious” might be rare. (Trump, however charismatic, is just a gifty psychopath. Nothing mystical here.) But “malilgnance” is not. Sick cultures produce sick individuals.
Bodhisattva aspiration is never other than simply sensible!
As a very little boy I learned of my patron saint’s story: Child Saint Dominic Savio intervened between two warring families (Think of “Romeo and Juliet”) and brought them to sensible dialogue.
That touched me. Our soon to be Prime Minister had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for having organized UN military forces to intervene in the “Suez Crisis”. I was just very young, but that made sense. What I couldn’t explain to myself? why France was inserting itself to violently re-impose colonialism in Indo-China, after WWII. (As a French Canadian, that came home to me. Also, I was born 5MAY1954. Dien Bien Phu surrened 2 days after my birth.) Fore-shadowing the ghastly war to come.
Hungary … Soviet tanks rolling in to crush democracy.
Chile … no assistance in overthrowing the mafia regime, but an invasion to crush the new administration, which effectly put that people’s history into the Soviet sphere.
1960s … murderous in every way.
I turned to Canadian military as a way of turning away from bourgeois society and culture. (My thinking was simply this: perhaps our society would be less bloody-minded if we effectively interdicted Soviet assets to drive them back.)
I didn’t tangle with consumerism and the abuse of Freudian psychiatry. Above my pay grade!
I did tangle with “culture wars” … as far back as 1970s.
All I could think of was how everyone around me, schoolyard and later, always indulged or at least ignored bullies and other villains.
”Malicious” might be rare. (Trump, however charismatic, is just a gifty psychopath. Nothing mystical here.) But “malilgnance” is not. Sick cultures produce sick individuals.
Bodhisattva aspiration is never other than simply sensible!
mangalam
—KC