Word: oblivions
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...allowing extremists to wage war (as Muslim leaders do when they fail to publicly condemn bin Laden and his followers). At a crucial moment in the process, it becomes detrimental to the goals of the political movement to condone violent extremists, and then, usually, they are self-policed into oblivion. This week the legitimate political wing of the Northern Ireland nationalist movement (Sinn Fein), for instance, asked its violent extremists (the Provos) to disarm. In Spain, ETA has targeted Basque nationalist politicians who have joined the Spanish democratic process, knowing as their power grows, the ETA’s will...
...musically, they are a talented bunch. But what makes OAR such a phenomenon, what drives teenagers in droves to their shows and inspires college students to blast their MP3s as they drink themselves into oblivion, is precisely that hint—as their name suggests—of a revolution. But OAR is not a revolution against anything concrete. It is not against governments or against people. They do not rage against the machine. Instead, they sing of a struggle that rages within ourselves. OAR is born of a revolution against everything that is superfluous to who we are?...
...Afghanistan off the hook, we let other nations harboring terrorists think they can get away with it too. If we bomb Afghanistan to oblivion, we will make other small, impoverished countries fear and hate us even more strongly. We already know that the retributive policy pursued in Israel has only increased the terrorists’ resolve and undermined the power of the only people who can curb terrorism—the governments of the countries who harbor them...
...drink. I breathe. I even manage a few laughs here and there, a few moments of happy oblivion. Routine is what we use to keep our minds from overtaking us. Forget talk—it trivializes. Forget silence—it magnifies. Only routine—the calmness of physical denial, the okay-ness of everyday motions—reclaims for me the repetition that is normality...
Living in Oblivion...