It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. Mother Davis staggers, drunk with the irony: 1. We're supposed to be going to war against Iraq, because the Iraqi government is a terrorist government, and, as George W. loves to remind us, terrorism is evil 2. A group that opposes the Iraqi government occupied an embassy in Germany yesterday, injuring two people and holding others hostage during an hours-long standoff. 3. Taking hostages to gain political attention is considered a terrorist act, and caused George W. to send soldiers to the Philippines to hunt down a rebel group there 4. Is George W. now going to order U.S. troops to go fight the evil terrorist anti-Hussein rebels? HOLY DOUBLESPEAK! You're either against us or you're against us! Mother Davis, Astonished to consider that the world may not be so easily divided into good guys and bad guys... Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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