THE DALLAS SIT-IN – AMOK, BUCKS, CRIME ‚N‘ WAR: INSIDE OUT – OUTSIDE IN

THE DALLAS SIT-IN – AMOK, BUCKS, CRIME ‚N‘ WAR: INSIDE OUT – OUTSIDE IN

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AS IF THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A MAHATMA GHANDI, ROSA PARKS, MARTIN LUTHER KING, MUHAMMAD ALI, BOB MARLEY! AS IF THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A GOOD GOD, Y’ALL! AS IF THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WAR – THERE’S ALWAYS BEEN A CIVIL WORLD WAR! THE REPORTS ON THE „DALLAS INCIDENTS“ ARE A GREAT EXAMPLE OF AN EVEN GREATER HOAX, PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ELSEWHERE AROUND THE WORLD ARE TO SUBSCRIBE TO. „WHITE“ U.S. „POLICE OFFICERS“ „SHOT“ A „BLACK“ AMERICAN CITIZEN … A „BLACK“ AMERICAN CITIZEN KILLED SEVERAL „WHITE“ U.S.“ POLICE OFFICERS“. THESE TWO BITS OF „ALL IN ONE BREATH“ NEWS DO NOT FIT THE SAME CATEGORY BY VARIOUS MEANS: FIRST, THESE TWO ACTS OF SAVAGENESS SURELY DID NOT COMPENSATE FOR ONE ANOTHER. IN CONTRAST, BOTH ACTS WERE VIOLENT DISPLAYS OF POWER ON THEIR OWN AND IN THEIR OWN REGARD OF DISTORTED LEGITIMISATION. SECOND, DO „WHITE“ OR „BLACK“ OR ANY OTHER „COLOUR“ SEEM TO MATTER? IN CONTRAST, THEY DO NOT MATTER AS BRUTALITY HAS NO COLOUR OR SHAPE, IT RATHER HAS SIGNS AND SHAPES BEYOND ANY MUNDANE IMAGERY. THIRD, DO „POLICE OFFICERS“ OR „CITIZENS“ SEEM TO MATTER? IN CONTRAST, THEY DO NOT MATTER AS NEITHER „WRONG AND RIGHT“ NOR „BAD AND GOOD“ WEAR „WORK COATS“ OR EVEN „UNIFORMS GENERATING THE IMPRESSION THEIR HUMAN CARRIERS’ ACTION REMAINED IN ‚NON-AUTHORISED‘ OR ‚AUTHORISED‘ HANDS“. NONETHELESS, HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN? STARTING OUT ON ANSWERING THAT QUESTIONS, THE IDEA IS TO DETERMINE THE QUALITY AND QUANTUM OF THE EXTENT TO WHICH A MINORITY OF SO-CALLED „CIVILISED“ („RICH“) COUNTRIES ACCOUNT FOR A MAJORITY OF DISADVANTAGED, „LESS PRIVILEGED“ („POOR“) NATIONS AND THEIR POPULATIONS. THE IDEA IS ALSO TO VERIFY WHY AND HOW (OR: HOW AND WHY?) SO-CALLED „GREAT ECONOMIES“ UNWITTINGLY TEND TO CONSERVE OR WITTINGLY TAKE ACTION TO PRESERVE THEIR (OWN) WEALTH IN LOCKSTEP WITH EXTERNALISING RAMIFICATIONS EMERGING FROM THEIR SOLE WELL-BEING AT THE EXPENSE OF „EMERGING“, „SMALL“ OR „NON-ECONOMIES“, HARDING CONTINENTAL DISPARITIES.
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BIRTH; SCHOOL; STUDIES; WORK; LIFE; HOPE ... "THERE ARE THESE TWO YOUNG FISH SWIMMING ALONG, AND THEY HAPPEN TO MEET AN OLDER FISH SWIMMING THE OTHER WAY, WHO NODS AT THEM AND SAYS, 'MORNING, BOYS, HOW'S THE WATER?' AND THE TWO YOUNG FISH SWIM ON FOR A BIT, AND THEN EVENTUALLY ONE OF THEM LOOKS OVER AT THE OTHER AND GOES, 'WHAT THE HELL IS WATER?' (DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, THIS IS WATER)