A SAD DAY AT THE END OF ANOTHER SAD YEAR

The hanging of Saddam may well be celebrated by brutal barbarians like George W Bush and many others but it is yet another sad dent in any civilisation process. This morning was another sick sign of wretchedness. It was already said quite clearly and by many that the Nazi atrocities brought with it the end of art and poetry and any sense of the worth of cultural civilising processes. To listen to classical high-culture music just after working to murder Jewish folk was, it was said, the end of the educational value of the liberal arts. It seems to me that the Western world(s) have yet to handle that demise from Nazi times.

Today, fueled by yet another crises-ridden condition of capitalism and fueled by an increasing mechanical version of ethics, the West(s) are lacking all courage and lacking any sense of character to counter the prevailing currents of overt and covert acts of oppression and torture and murder. As a new totalitarianism takes hold in the West it must be time to rekindle those radical sparks of dignified revolt. Civil disobedience is again necessary and radical alternatives again necessary. That is the best I can find to say on yet another sad day like this where to sit and moan or even weep would be understandable.
Of course Saddam himself is just a public and worldwide example of this demise and of course humanitas and caritas is never measured in numbers.