{"id":54030,"date":"2017-02-16T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54030"},"modified":"2017-02-16T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:04:51","slug":"silence-populated-with-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54030","title":{"rendered":"Silence, populated with sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — A Meditation In Time Of War, you might say ]
\n.<\/p>\n

The DoubleQuote<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\n
  • John Cage<\/strong>, Silence: Lectures and Writings<\/a>\n
  • Sa’ed Atshan<\/strong>, A Palestinian Quaker bears witness to pacifism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I was brought to Atshan’s remarkable piece by Tim Burke<\/strong>, writing on his Easily Distracted blog<\/a> today:<\/p>\n

    My colleague Sa\u2019ed Atshan is profoundly committed to trying to get out of the standard confinements of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. At the least if one were going to disagree with him\u2013or accuse him\u2013you would want to contend with the ethical biography he sets out in his Feb. 14 piece for the American Friends Service Committee. Contend with it in its particulars: that\u2019s what he says he believes.<\/p>\n

    Instead, here\u2019s what we have: anonymous sites that use innuendo and arguments-by-association assembled by cowards then being used by parents at Friends Central School to manipulate its principal into declaring, \u201cThis person shouldn\u2019t be giving a talk at our school\u201d.<\/p>\n

    And before you say a damn thing, I don\u2019t like it when similar conduct is used by someone that\u2019s \u201con my side\u201d. I didn\u2019t like it one bit when one of our students used the same kind of soft lies and pollution-by-contagion to argue against a possible graduation speaker at Swarthmore. I don\u2019t like it period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [ by Charles Cameron — A Meditation In Time Of War, you might say ] . The DoubleQuote: ** Sources: John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings Sa’ed Atshan, A Palestinian Quaker bears witness to pacifism I was brought to Atshan’s remarkable piece by Tim Burke, writing on his Easily Distracted blog today: My colleague Sa\u2019ed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,480,1302,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-music","category-silence","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54033,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54030\/revisions\/54033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}