Apocalyptica
Mar. 21st, 2003 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfyThe Apocalyptica Concert yesterday was reaaaally great ^_^
We were quite in front of the stage and during the concert I managed to come even a little closer... now I just hope the photos I took will be good.
Oh my god these guys are soooo slashy... *_* Elia and I talked about it afterwards... we think that Eicca (the amused one) and Pertuu (the wicked one) would fit together best. I just fear in order to read Apocalyptica slash I'd have to write it myself >.< Or... Elia, do you want to? :)
The songs from their new album were mostly really great, especially Toreador II and Ressurrection. I saw Elia got them *happy*. I met some guy I now from a computershop where he works, we even talked a bit and maybe he will help me finding places in colonge to go out (he knows quite some, it seemed). That will be fun, now I just need to have somewhat more money...
Last day of work now for three weeks *happy sigh*, will have school again.
And this evening I really will have to invite the rest of the people I didn't ask until now...
Off to work now.... here just a text I saw in another journal and I thought it's really correct, so... just go and read it.
All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We
are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam
Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage
war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war. The paramount principle
is that the UN's word must be taken seriously, and if we have to
subvert its word to guarantee that it is, then by gum, we will. Peace is too
important not to take up arms to defend. Am I getting this right?
Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the
democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor-bound to do that
too, because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped
by a little thing like democracy as they define it.
Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot
afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against
Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard. We are
sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that
might does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does.
And we are twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us
oust a regime that twists the arms of the opposition. We cannot leave
in power a dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and
people elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no
choice but to ignore them.
Listen. Don't misunderstand. I think it is a good thing that the
members of the Bush administration seem to have been reading Lewis Carroll. I
only wish someone had pointed out that "Alice in Wonderland" and
"Through the Looking Glass" are meditations on paradox and puzzle and
illogic and on the strangeness of things, not templates for foreign
policy. It is amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, `We
must make war on him because he is a threat to peace,' but not amusing for
someone who actually commands an army to say that.
As a collector of laughable arguments, I'd be enjoying all this were it
not for the fact that I know--we all know--that lives are going to be
lost in what amounts to a freak, circular reasoning accident.
Peter Freundlich is a freelance journalist in New York.
*wanders off to eat something and to wake up...*
We were quite in front of the stage and during the concert I managed to come even a little closer... now I just hope the photos I took will be good.
Oh my god these guys are soooo slashy... *_* Elia and I talked about it afterwards... we think that Eicca (the amused one) and Pertuu (the wicked one) would fit together best. I just fear in order to read Apocalyptica slash I'd have to write it myself >.< Or... Elia, do you want to? :)
The songs from their new album were mostly really great, especially Toreador II and Ressurrection. I saw Elia got them *happy*. I met some guy I now from a computershop where he works, we even talked a bit and maybe he will help me finding places in colonge to go out (he knows quite some, it seemed). That will be fun, now I just need to have somewhat more money...
Last day of work now for three weeks *happy sigh*, will have school again.
And this evening I really will have to invite the rest of the people I didn't ask until now...
Off to work now.... here just a text I saw in another journal and I thought it's really correct, so... just go and read it.
All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We
are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam
Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage
war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war. The paramount principle
is that the UN's word must be taken seriously, and if we have to
subvert its word to guarantee that it is, then by gum, we will. Peace is too
important not to take up arms to defend. Am I getting this right?
Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the
democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor-bound to do that
too, because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped
by a little thing like democracy as they define it.
Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot
afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against
Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard. We are
sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that
might does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does.
And we are twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us
oust a regime that twists the arms of the opposition. We cannot leave
in power a dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and
people elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no
choice but to ignore them.
Listen. Don't misunderstand. I think it is a good thing that the
members of the Bush administration seem to have been reading Lewis Carroll. I
only wish someone had pointed out that "Alice in Wonderland" and
"Through the Looking Glass" are meditations on paradox and puzzle and
illogic and on the strangeness of things, not templates for foreign
policy. It is amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, `We
must make war on him because he is a threat to peace,' but not amusing for
someone who actually commands an army to say that.
As a collector of laughable arguments, I'd be enjoying all this were it
not for the fact that I know--we all know--that lives are going to be
lost in what amounts to a freak, circular reasoning accident.
Peter Freundlich is a freelance journalist in New York.
*wanders off to eat something and to wake up...*