tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post5894855261168768506..comments2024-03-01T03:37:20.420-05:00Comments on I'M SOMEWHERE ELSE: 2. How Indistinguishability Keeps Its GrooveAmanda Foresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200794053287551087noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-58534270743446788042011-09-28T13:14:28.285-04:002011-09-28T13:14:28.285-04:00thanks so much for your interest, and it's her...thanks so much for your interest, and it's here: http://adeepercountry.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-indistinguishability-got-its-groove.html<br />I will have a table of contents type thing when I'm all done with it, like with <a href="http://adeepercountry.blogspot.com/2010/11/social-skills-dont-exist_12.html" rel="nofollow">social skills don't exist</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-81225169853176831672011-09-28T12:50:26.958-04:002011-09-28T12:50:26.958-04:00I feel as if I'd better understand this post i...I feel as if I'd better understand this post if I could locate "1."Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11538573774184028004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-1748915756399615862011-09-16T00:12:51.390-04:002011-09-16T00:12:51.390-04:00Some of the other people at Abu Gharib:
England w...Some of the other people at Abu Gharib:<br /><br />England was hanging around with Graner, and there was one called Meaghan. Right now I'm going with those who were court-marshalled and those who gave evidence.<br /><br />There's a good <i>Guardian</i> article from the 3rd January 2009 which talks about the consequences of whistle-blowing.<br /><br />What I picked up:<br /><br />* England was "friends with everyone" in high school.<br />* For the past 2 years she's been avoiding many of those people who would recognise her.<br />* She wanted to be a storm-chaser.<br />* The <i>Guardian</i> article mentioned that she was a situational mute, and also had a learning disability.<br />* After Abu Gharib, she found that she was a very visual person.<br />* In her junior year she worked as a cashier.<br />* Something struck me a lot. The article said "she looked like a 14-year-old who shouldn't have been there".<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/03/abu-ghraib-lynndie-england-interview" rel="nofollow">Brockers, Emma [2009] 'What happens in war happens</a>Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-17149474033722149012011-09-15T19:46:14.988-04:002011-09-15T19:46:14.988-04:00Thanks so much Adelaide that book sounds really go...Thanks so much Adelaide that book sounds really good. I haven't read much about Lynndie England and the other people at Abu Ghraib but I am really interested to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-8719850333520046932011-09-15T18:52:36.707-04:002011-09-15T18:52:36.707-04:00Indeed.
Everyone's context does feel normal t...Indeed.<br /><br />Everyone's context does feel normal to them. Except when it doesn't. It takes time and space for the context to be so normal. And what you do and are in that time and space...<br /><br />And, yes, Lynndie England - kicking unicorns (and Iraqis). If Iraqis screamed and shivered like unicorns (the unicorns I know have a high-pitched sound they use to call or when they're hurt).<br /><br />Joe Bageant wrote about that really well (<i>Deer Hunting with Jesus</i> - chapter THE BALLAD OF LYNDDIE ENGLAND - another nursing home chapter AN AUTHORISED PLACE TO DIE). One of the things I remember is the Hologram.<br /><br />(And he experienced some distinguishability pressures too, and so did his classmates/colleagues. Pulling out an example from <i>Rainbow Pie</i> - much more diffuse book than <i>Deer Hunting</i>).<br /><br />When I think of broad spectrum - it's like sunscreen.<br /><br />It protects you against the UV rays which are invisible - infrared and ultraviolet.<br /><br />"Be free to wear sunscreen" and be aware of the choice and its implications?<br /><br />Electricity - noise, static, expense.<br /><br />(There's a lot of sense in being against the electric companies and going off the grid!)<br /><br />Would being against indistinguishability be like being against light or fire? Or against darkness?<br /><br />Think of the reasons for the action and the feelings too. Then follow through and see what would happen to the social norms.<br /><br />Something in a New Zealand context:<br /><br /><a href="http://traintheteacher.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/the-notion-that-children-are-people-too/" rel="nofollow">A disruption in social media involving children and people</a>Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.com