Sense making? miss-il-es civil-ians te-ears

individual

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

group

tears	tears
civilians to defend m i s s i l e s	m i s s i l e s to defend civilians

Source: Various news media over several days - current and past...
 

Joint Strike Care F-4(5)

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual(?)

Social Reflections on Power	Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Lightning II

group - population

Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Lightning II

Image source: https://www.f35.com/assets/uploads/downloads/13661/9777287314_9a87af14da_o__medium.jpg

 

FOUR QUARTETS T.S. Eliot from EAST COKER - IV

FOUR QUARTETS

T.S. Eliot

EAST COKER
(No. 2 of 'Four Quartets')

IV
The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
    Our only health is the disease
If we obey the dying nurse
Whose constant care is not to please
But to remind of our, and Adam's curse,
And that, to be restored, our sickness must grow worse.
    The whole earth is our hospital
Endowed by the ruined millionaire,
Wherein, if we do well, we shall
Die of the absolute paternal care
That will not leave us, but prevents us everywhere.
    The chill ascends from feet to knees,
The fever sings in mental wires.
If to be warmed, then I must freeze
And quake in frigid purgatorial fires
Of which the flame is roses, and the smoke is briars.
    The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.


T.S. Eliot Nobel Prizes biography
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html

Source copy:
http://www.davidgorman.com/4Quartets/notes.htm

http://www.davidgorman.com/4Quartets/2-coker.htm

An International Bill of the Rights of Man (reissued)

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual

How do we address the mental health status of our leaders?	How can science and technology work positively to assure the Rights of All, to secure evidence of war crimes? Where does the biosphere stand (side-by-side : hand-in-hand)?
Should war crimes once perpetrated be relegated to cultural memory: baggage carried forward for generations anew to avenge? How must they do this other than learning (remembering) how to hate? What are the important lessons; of what must be remembered and what we should forget?	An International Bill of the Rights of Man

group - population

Olympic Torches, History and Nostalgia for the Light

I never got to see the Olympic torch procession,  although I crossed its path on a couple of occasions.

This for me has much significance    +

In Euxton, Lancashire and more recently I found myself ahead of the relay in Oxford.

I saw a torch at the Disability Awareness Day in Warrington.



A prized possession: a keepsake of a lifetime.


Image source: http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/9825966.Disability_Awareness_Day_marks_21st_event_with_Olympic_glow/


Over the weekend I went to see the film - Nostalgia for the Light. A documentary that is simultaneously challenging, troubling, poetic and beautiful. A journey through history in its multiple forms; astronomy, and archaeology - ancient and modern. The setting is the Atacama desert. The astronomers using various telescopes explore celestial bodies, taking advantage of the elevation and transparency of the sky. The extremely low humidity that also supports such observations also preserves human bodies. Not just those thousands of years old, but human bodies from more recent times. Those of Chile's "disappeared" those who have been found and those still lost to their families.

Skeletons abounded. Ancient mummies, more recent explorers and miners. I noticed how these skeletons can give up their secrets from belongings, clothing, identified by relatives.

How telescopes themselves are skeletized in their design to save weight, cost. Today the affluent can purchase a skeletized watch - to make a statement. Mechanism. To mark their personal history. History.

What legacy? What cost? 

Around the world : dictatorship.

The search of the few for the many against the sun and the turn of stars.

Light seeking light, seeking peace and a final release.