It was rain yesterday as well and I had to use my main umbrella while journeying by bus to my physio man. These treatments are helping in that my mobility increases as their associated pains decrease. I am still not sure about my trip West on account of this reduced mobility and will wait until next week to decide.

Webwork continued with making the home page more current about what I add to my collection. For example, yesterday I posted the Shakespearian quotes under ‘Topicals’, with a link directly to it from my home page in the ‘latest’ box at the home page top. It is not very elegant, but it is functional.

Today Herman and I have our lunch date and we’ll have to decide on my summer talk date, title and description. The latter two will have to wait until Sunday, for being wrought into worthy words for the brochure.

I notice a Shakespearian influence here, albeit a shaky one! I think that Shakespeare got this name, because he was of nobility, had the Tourette syndrome - the shaking spear at the tourneys - and was a poet. This is my contribution to the Shakespeare theories.

Below follows a few words on the London Woolwich, UK killing of two days ago.

I have ‘distilled’ the word ‘backwash’ for this killing. It is a word meant to give a name to the combined affect and effect of ‘collateral damage’ and ‘blowback’. Backwash then is collateral damage blown back to the source of the violence that lies at the root of the collateral damage.

This situation already existed in colonial times, but backwash could not take place since the world was not yet sufficiently globalised. In our interconnected world the old ways of acting - visiting violence upon others who appear defenceless - no longer is possible.

You will never be safe

Woolwich London UK attacker

The kind of violence that we in the West used against people in the ‘East’, as retribution for the destruction of New York’s ‘World Trade’ center was a colonial type reaction. Our world today is far too much interwoven for such ‘acting out’ to go without consequences. And as the attacker said: ‘You will never be safe’.

This has become true in our world and we need to change our behaviour by taking into account the consequences of our own deeds for those subjected anywhere else on this planet. This is true for military violence and commercial exploitation - Dhaka - alike. It is fact of life on our globalised planet and may bless and blame Columbus for making that first move back around 1498 AD.

I have other thoughts on this as well, which are more detailed as to how this interconnection works. It addresses the idea of radicalisation, but then as an interactive process.
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