tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post975218839929431542..comments2024-03-26T23:49:37.130-05:00Comments on detritus.: the banality of evilsuttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-75334066821690957252009-04-19T01:26:00.000-05:002009-04-19T01:26:00.000-05:00If you're in NY before May 31st... you need to go ...If you're in NY before May 31st... you need to go see "Protect Protect" at the Whitney by Jenny Holzer. Just saw it y'day with my dad... pretty amazing. <br /><br />http://whitney.org/www/holzer/index.jspRahulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-15038336324686368222009-04-17T23:01:00.000-05:002009-04-17T23:01:00.000-05:00that's the trick isn't it: not being able to walk ...that's the trick isn't it: not being able to walk away. not being able to control or even entirely influence what happens this moment, or the next.suttonhoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-51595499878561518302009-04-17T19:44:00.000-05:002009-04-17T19:44:00.000-05:00My own reactions to the whole torture debate distu...My own reactions to the whole torture debate disturb me. I think, really? Is it so bad? It's not disfiguring, disabling, fatal. It's uncomfortable. It's unpleasant. Is that so bad, when the stakes are so high? Discomfort to gain info that may save many, many lives?<br /><br />And then I think, yes. It is so bad. No legal recourse, just indefinitely lost in a legal limbo in which the captors make your life uncomfortable and unpleasant and maybe worse, with no end in sight, and no hope of ever proving that you don't deserve it.<br /><br />I am the banally evil.I, Rodiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08199985322178825076noreply@blogger.com