Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Faas, Horst, and Betrayal
From: Alfred Breull <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 01:15:15 +0100
 
At 01:06 07.12.1997 -0800, Jim wrote:
>The Leica is innocent. It neither made decisions nor carried them out. It
>was the humble servant of those who felt compelled to participate. The
>minds eye of its user, was recorded for all time. The Leica did its job.
>And did it well.

Unfortunately, you cannot separate object and intention, Jim. If it 
were possible, you could change "Leica" into "a-bomb", and your above
statement would be still true - at least if you remember the lot
of glory statements following Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

The object/ intention separation was re-animated (again) by behaviorists, 
like Skinner etc, to justify a certain way of scientific approach. But 
it is and was used also, to silence individual or public consciousness.

Alf