"Having heard, or more probably read somewhere...that when a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line. For I stopped being half-witted and became sly, whenever I took the trouble...and if I did not go in a rigorously straight line, with my system of going in a circle, at least I did not go in a circle, and that was something." --Samuel Beckett
Without elaborating, he writes, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."
posted by Effwit at 8:53 AM
The way of tea has nothing to do with discriminating good utensils from bad utensils nor considering the form of making tea. The basic meaning of tea is to realize samadhi while using tea utensils and to practice seeing into the original nature.
-- Sotan
In the blue night
frost haze, the sky glows
with the moon
pine tree tops
bend snow-blue, fade
into sky, frost, starlight.
The creak of boots.
Rabbit tracks, deer tracks,
what do we know.
--Gary Snyder
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth.
--William S. Burroughs
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
--Thomas Pynchon
2 Comments:
"Largely" means it was also about doing Israel's dirty work.
Stonefruit:
Yep. The other main reason.
I had to laugh like hell when Greenspan backtracked the next day and claimed that his observation about the primacy of oil in our planning was taken out of context, and that he had supported the plan to depose Saddam Hussein.
Someone probably informed him that a war for oil would be considered a war crime of the most serious kind.
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