horrifying act in NYC

[Nevetsgnow at aol.com]

perhaps there is no need to walk on egg shells - why be sorry for your 
opinion.
The recent e-mails had an initial question - what the list thought of the 
relationship between pearl harbor and the recent incidents, to bring the 
dialogue back to the nature of this list - Japanese Cinema - Black Rain 
although made in 92 (?) is a perfect example of how Japanese cultural 
production deals with the representation of its wounds, albeit, some years 
later. What does this tell us?  That wound remains a part of Japanese society 
and it remains something that people have to deal with, irrespective of the 
generations that go by. I have never lived in Japan and so would not know the 
extant of it. However, films like Black Rain effectively exposes and attempts 
to deal with those wounds - in the wake of the events in New York and 
Washington the really sad and confounding evidence of both the senator who 
mirrored these events to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the media's 
subsequent decision to use it shows us something very wrong with dominant 
culture.
Both American and British television have referred to the senators remarks 
and continue to use it throughout their coverage of events. Does this not say 
something equally disturbing. In their haste to pin down the perpetrators, 
both western cultures have done nothing more than reflect the methodology of 
martyrdom upon themselves? How does this differ from the ideology of people 
like Usama Mohd. bin Laden? 
The most frightening aspect of all of this is that after 50 years of western 
cultural domination we are no further away from the events or mind set of 
WW2. No doubt, there will be an American need to find a common enemy to 
displace their collective anger onto. Irrespective of who this enemy is, 
someone somewhere will get the collateral damage of this kind of mentality. 
That is terrorism.