ZGram - 9/12/2001 - "Some thoughts on sanity"

[Ingrid Rimland]

Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

September 12, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

The following is an excerpt from Legion News & Views - a thoughtful
Catholic publication.  It was sent by legion.bulletin@verizon.net - and
presumably posted at www.legionofstlouis.com

The article itself is a very long, calmly argued essay of great complexity
and eloquent power which I intend to read when yesterday has retreated a
bit.

 All day long I have been surfing the net, collecting bits and pieces of
the voices that try to "explain" what has happened - and why.

This article, by contrast, asks us to explain ourselves.

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Readers will notice that we didn't begin todays's special issue on
yesterday's remarkable events with "America is attacked."  America wasn't
attacked.  America isn't the World Trade Center, nor is it the Pentagon.
At least those things don't represent our America, nor should they for our
readers.

 The media spin masters would have us think that those things represent
America, only to encourage a misuse of our Patriotic sentiments...a misuse
which has been going on for far too long and which is bound, unfortunately,
only to continue as a result of yesterday's intentional plane crashes.

In the following Special Bulletin we intend to present some of our own
views and reprint some very interesting articles from around the world.
Numerous are the thoughts that come to mind as a result of incidents like
these.  Let's try to take just a few in a logical order.

 Some thoughts on Sanity.

Ours is an age of insanity.  What's black passes for white, what's bad
passes for good, and what's ugly passes for beautiful.  So what we should
keep in mind as we attempt to analyse a few of the elements of today's
events is that insanity is the norm, and sanity is the exception to the
rule.  No possibility is too outlandish in our day and age, no silliness
beyond that which can and should be expected.

The first insanity is that people should live and work in buildings that
are 1500 feet high.  And an insanity that follows close on the heels of
that one is that our degree of adjustment to that first insanity is such
that instinctively our hearts are broken, our ire is provoked, and our
sense of reality is replaced with a sensation of the surreal when we
witness and then contemplate the complete destruction of a 110 story
skyscraper.

If we lived in a sane world, the thought that 12 million people would
choose to live and work on an 11 mile by 1 mile Island, piled on top of
each other 1500 feet into the air, just to keep the world's financial
fiction spinning and steaming and churning, just to keep the pockets of the
relatively very few wealthy stuffed ever more and more to capacity while
the rest of the world's men and women remain enslaved as wage-earners and
deprived of the liberty of property ownership...that thought would be
surreal.  And a visit to Manhattan by a man who was familiar with the
countryside and who knew the land and who was intimately aquainted with
God's creation because he received his sustenance from the land and not
from a supermarket or a vending machine...that Manhattan visit would throw
him into a heart-breaking, anger-producing, surreal funk from which he
could recover only by an escape back to the land.

If we lived in a sane world, the thought that thousands of people stuffed
into a 1500 foot tower controlled or managed or micromanaged the fictional
(and yet all-too-real in the destructive and opressive sense) financial
transactions of millions upon milions of people, who never set foot on
Manhattan Island let alone visit the Tower...that thought would be
mystifying, mind-blowing, and dis-orienting to the common man, much as
today's events were so for so many "viewers" and "listeners."

Unfortunately, in our world all these things are normal and what sends us
into shock is the disruption of these silly activities and the collapse of
this crazy icon of modernity.  But in a sane world, assuming the tragic
issue of the loss of many innocent lives could be set aside for just a
moment...in a sane world, the elimination of most of the center of the
world's usurious financial system would and should bring a breath of fresh
air, a sigh of relief, and a hope for a better day.

But, obviously, in this, our insane world, none of those things are to be,
at least not in the immediate future.  Most certainly, none of them will
come to pass if we allow ourselves to be mesmerized by the constant
bleating of the spin doctors  and mind-control experts on the evening news
who will sigh and sympathize with all those who are suffering emotional
shock over the destruction of, as dear Peter Jennings put it several times
last night, the "icon of American Capitalism."  As long as we allow our
natural emotions of sympathy for the victims of the airplane crashes, a
distinct and separate issue, to be mixed up with notions of defending "our
way of life," we will remain unable to objectively fix what it is that is
wrong with our insane world.

One thing's for sure.  What's essentially (as opposed to incidentally)
wrong with our insane world is not the crashing of airplanes into the World
Trade Center.  That is a symptom.  The disease is far worse.

>From the perspective of the natural law, the domination of the world by
money is criminal and illicit.  And the concentration of the world's real
wealth (land, machines, factories and other means of production) into the
hands of a few such that most are deprived of any substantial property
ownership, is as criminal and as illicit.

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Thought for the Day:

"The first question you should ask about your enemy is why he is your enemy
in the first place."

(Sent to the Zundelsite)