RE: RAT Columbine (Artaud)

["Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com>]

"but if there's absolutely nothing behind the 
simulacra, if we take a peek behind the mask and it proves to be empty..."

Yes. 

Buddhist view: There is no authentic experience that can be named except
perhaps by the word emptiness or nothingness. If you peel back the layers
you just get more layers. 

Also: Part of the mind blowing horror is that this was perpetrated by
children on children.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	RICKMITCH@aol.com [SMTP:RICKMITCH@aol.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 22, 1999 11:46 AM
> To:	rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject:	RAT Columbine (Artaud)
> 
>      
>      like most "death" we experience--in blood-filled video games, the 
> movies, TV, even theater--the Littleton massacre is, for most of us,
> another 
> simulation.  in many ways, it's not unlike the war in Kosovo, operation 
> desert storm.  the murdered this time, however, are not "Others," they're 
> part of OUR comm'y (to a large degree), so this tragedy seems much worse,
> to 
> most of us, than the multinational deaths sponsored and carried out by the
> 
> ("legal," media-supported) war machine, with its friendly, medaled 
> commentators proudly showing the world videos (simulations) of direct
> hits.   
>  
>      by breaking through the simulation (if that's even possible), could 
> Artaud's theater help to explode the spell of a world enveloped in
> simulacra 
> by breaking through to the spectator's humanness,  thus helping him/her to
> 
> finally experience it?  (could it even compete with a daily, six hour dose
> of 
> super nintendo?)  could the Theater of Cruelty show the horror of the 
> simulacra for what it is?  but if there's absolutely nothing behind the 
> simulacra, if we take a peek behind the mask and it proves to be empty...
>