is the word 'diary' better than the word 'blog'? probably not.
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The true problem for us Westerners.
"The true problem for us Westerners is not so much to refuse violence as to question ourselves about a struggle against violence which, without blanching in non-resistance to evil, could avoid the institution of violence out of this very struggle. Does not war perpetuate that which it is called to make disappear, and consecrate war and its virile virtues in good conscience? One has to reconsider the meaning of a certain human weakness, and no longer see in patience only the reverse side of the ontological finitude of the human. But for that one has to be patient oneself without asking patience of others�and for that one has to admit a difference between oneself and others. One has to find for man another kinship than that which ties him to being, one that will perhaps enable us to conceive of this difference between me and the other, this inequality, in a sense absolutely opposed to oppression." (Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise than Being, p 177)
2:01 p.m. - January 09, 2005
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