The Folly of the Use of Terror

From 'the Kant Variations'- Unity in the House of Reason

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Fear makes nothing. Fear learns nothing. Fear does nothing, joins nothing, loves nothing. And the sky of terrorists has claws throughout, swiping down, staring at others always, watching others like prey, and the winds hiss and whisper. Each path is mined, and as we walk this path we can hear the hideous laugh rise from the mantle of terrorists and we know that we are stalked. It is this way everywhere under the firmament of Terror, everywhere throughout the sky of Terror, and throughout all of this, everywhere and at all times there is no-thing, and all of this is no-thing.

Fear sits in the anguish of nothing and says that it is everything. Fear withdraws exposure of the self from the act, and paralyzes the self. There is no unity in fear, but only when we move from it. The production of fear by violence never unifies those to its cause, because there is no unity in the message. Defeat experienced in the contest of living may indeed feel like degradation but it does nothing to tell us how to live, it shows us not another way, but focuses on a pain that no other can ever take away, and that all men must live with. Terror attempts to paralyze, to stop the judgment of the world, but enters a world in which men do fear, but act anyway, do fear, but make anyway, do fear, but work anyway, do fear, but love anyway.

Terror has no voice, can say nothing but only that it has been wronged, that it is victim. Terror does not try again. The mistaken belief of Terror is that violence is power. What Terror wishes to change it cannot, for through violence there will change none of the production and capability of the world. Terror is a magnification of the weakness of the self, an attempt to show others a degradation and weakness that when felt, will change thinking. Terror thinks that the world will see it as capable and it will be restored. Terror sees its position only, and sees no difference between themselves and others, but sees itself less for it. Terror feels degraded and wishes others to feel degraded as well, only then according to Terror will the attitude change that `causes' the degradation to occur. What Terror does not see is that its' message does not connect, not because we are distanced and do not see, but its message does not connect because we have felt our own weakness, and we allow it.

We work from our weakness, and see the possibility that arises from it. Once death is accepted as a principle throughout the structure of life then No violence can ever make us feel less than dead. I do die, once I accept this the violence of what you do to me will never make me feel that you are great, will never bring approval, will never bring me together with you, will never make you capable, will never make you more. The `I' is weak, I accept this about myself, but together `we' are more, and in this more, together, there is nothing that violence and terror can do.

Richard J. Luczak II