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Did You hear our criesfrom such a long distance?Were You too, awaken by the screams?of long-lost and forgotten bodies,Emaciated and twisted,
almost 
past pain;Can You hear that They were
 summoned 
By our testimony, but, alas, lacking
Gewissen
(any moral conscience),Ethics (and morality) unfolds outside
(c) Lyle A. Brecht 5-Mar-06
 
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The field of epistemic discourseAnd compassion for 
 Autrui
(‘the Other’).But I am a worm, barely human (
 sein
); Not even
autrui
scorned by the Others,despised by the Minders;Lying here naked, stretched out;Retinas blown, foundations shaken:On a cold gun-metal grey dais;all postmodern; Western bliss.Thesis, antithesis, fracture– no synthesis; or coming together all History of Being dissolvedIn small pools of bloodcollecting beneath the dais;Separate world-pictures never contaminatingRubber-gloved
tehomic
MindersWriting their 
 Heilsgeschiche.
 Does Their salvation history
away
from YouRecord four centuries’ History of Holocaust;Industrially reducing indigenous populations,125 million, whittled down 90 percent:Hacked apart, burned alive, hunted as game,Fed to dogs, shot, beaten, stabbed, scalped;Worked to death as slave labor.All calculation and denial: necessary utility,for constructing the Great Empire;Gigantic gated communities of fear employingMinders, instructed in prison schools. No longer public death, now private,Autonomous prisons of torture;enough to forget what was once human;Just a dais of pain and forgetting now,
(c) Lyle A. Brecht 5-Mar-06
 
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 No longer myth remembered – anamnesis lostBut, oh so real; the only Reality?Beneath the buzz of economic productivity.Were the camp Minders thinking of Heidegger,Imagining themselves Docetic pietists bound to virtue,all duty and moral obligation; Silent.Wondering if our groans,Groans too deep for words,are utterances of an authentic language– the poetry of pain running swiftly pastthe onto-theo-logical language of metaphysics;Language games and world-picturesAll plurality and difference.Did a hermeneutic of metaphorical discourserun through their spinning minds,as the torture began in earnestExtracting broken shards,Of pre-linguistic memories,Served-up, on-demand, and newly forged for the Minders:rendering teams dressed in black, head-to-toe,Whose job is to extract certain Informations– Truths of vast importance for the Free World’s War.Did the Minders mention War?Did they mention the Free World?In their Silence; Spinning.From the dais
we
see only a post-developed world,of ecocide, terrorism and torture;Products of heterodox, positivist theologywhere You are absent; such Silence,Where global capitalism,its twin doxys, utilitarianism and consumerism,Fund a never-ending War, a time of Exceptionwaged by nuclear secured statesagainst ‘the Others’
(c) Lyle A. Brecht 5-Mar-06
 
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