AFTER VIOLENCE: 3R, RECONSTRUCTION, RECONCILIATION ...

complacency. The cultural deformation had reached the stage of
collective paranoia.
63. One example of a vague idea: the widespread Western belief
that when Asians talk about "collective rights" then they can
rights of the state and corresponding duties for the citizens. No
doubt there are those who mean that. But the general meaning is
the right of collectivities, such as families, clans, maybe
traditional artisans in addition to the right of individuals,
e.g., as juridical persons/economic actors.
64. The French expression animatrice/animateur covers this very
well.
65. Thus, closure is B-oriented whereas healing is A-oriented.
Neither really deals with the contradiction, C-orientation is left
to resolution. In a very A/B-oriented conflict culture, like in
the USA, reconciliation will loom high and be easily embraced,
like reconstruction, because there is nothing controversial.
Thus, after the Viˆt Nam war much work was done to close verbal,
antagonistic behavior between "hawks" and "doves", to heal the
wounds derived from that controversy without really touching the
underlying contradiction within and between two countries. Twenty
years had to pass for that to be initiated with Robert MacNamara's
book - immediately rejected by establishment, veterans, etc. Time
will come even for that.
66. If God is both omniscient and omnipotent, how could He have
permitted this to happen? But that is only a theological
formulation, we all have that question when disaster strikes.
67. Ms Trauma: "you think you can buy me off with those cheap
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