FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD/DROS RYDDID DAEAR

FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD"To free the oppressed, end genocide, establish democracy and defend liberty..."At whatever personal cost: life, limb, liberty and livelihood; for the duration to peace, prosperity and security come. This is what it means to be an 'international' freedom fighter. "Dros rhyddid daear."Posted by Galahad Force at 05:50 0 comments Saturday, 30 December 2006Self-styled Freedom FighterMy life could become cultural artifact, the modern weapon of the peace-maker, if the narrative of my life is expressed metonymically.The post-modern obsession with the denial of meta-narratives not withstanding; my nationalism can and should be viewed as consistent and complimentary to my internationalism; all part of the freedom struggle which is indivisible and self-justifying. Some feedback on the roughdraft of my book would be appreciated.Posted by Galahad Force at 16:09 0 comments Labels: FreedomNew JournalismI conceive my "book" once it is written in more the draft notes as piece of New Journalism adopting the style of a documentary novel. I will hope to immerse my reference audience in the "excitement of the real" and the issues as they appear. At present only the political/analysis on the relevance of ethno-religious fundamentalism to the break-up of multi-national states in the modern era is developed properly.My "book" would have to successively develop a personal narrative and have subtle descriptive detail that would bring my experience to life and explored motives and emotions from the immediately comprehensible. My accounts would compliment the works of others that witnessed the same events. Then a military historian could use us as source material to write an account of the internationals which lacked our personal agendas. History is not however a news item or myth that is represnted metonymitically.My personal work was designed to challenge the stereotypical image of the mercenary "Ronin" to appeal to the "knight errant" in all soldiers; the mythical, atavistic, archetypal poet-warrior-priest of cultural memory. And to explore the meaning such a figure has to contemporary ethnic conflict. But I will pursue these aims through a conventional autobiographical narrative within the confines of the genre.Hopefully the political analysis will put our experience in context of the wider social and cultural movements that form the anti-globalisation "blowback" and the absolute moral relativism of post-modernity.Posted by Galahad Force at 15:38 0 comments Labels: Draft