What does it mean to oppose the war
in Iraq while your son is fighting there? Kari
Gunther-Seymour has lived that question daily
since her son was sent to Iraq in August. She has
turned one mother’s anguish and a citizen’s questions
into the stirring and interactive installation
WAR GAMES: a mother’s perspective at Minneapolis’
Susan Hensel Design through February.
“When the soldiers come home, they need to understand
that people really did differentiate between ‘the war’
and ‘the soldiers,’” Gunther-Seymour said quietly.
“What the soldiers are doing, they are commanded to do.
The war is separate and different people command and
control that. The soldiers are pawns on a chess board.”
Alia Vibe: This mother has been socialized. What she is promoting here is not civilized. It is cognitive dissonance. She gives the appearance of "supporting the troops" when in fact "she does not". Her viewpoint is to support the "blobs of tissues" known to the civilized world as "military" or "warriors"; but she does not support the warrior. Ergo, she is simply supporting "blobs of tissues" while inserting her own personal agenda.
It's a "dear John" letter: "I really, really love you; but I hate the way you breathe; lick stamps, look, walk, what you do, what you think -- but I want you to know I love you". This is socialized
behavior. Is it civilized?
NO.
It's lunacy. It reveals a shattered, non-whole soul who may only be able to realize others as "fragments" of her own worldview of "humanity".
It's like watching a headless body in action: Socialized but not civilized.
So... whaddya do when you see a headless body coming at you? You can't put a head on that thang.. but you can put it out of its lifeless misery.
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