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.



Wednesday, April 02, 2003
 
mother davisMother Davis pulls on her earlobe in concentration as she contemplates:

I've been thinking about two news items I've read today, and about how they represent the quality of suffering in America in comparison to the quality of suffering in Iraq that results from the current American invasion of the Middle East.

In one story, I find out from the BBC that a missile fired by the United States military invaders has struck a maternity hospital run by the Red Crescent (the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross) in Baghdad. American anti-war activists who support the invasion of Iraq are still figuring out how they feel about this latest attack on civilians, given that it included an attack on unborn Iraqis. This attack came just hours after American helicopter gunships fired their weapons into a residential neighborhood in the Iraqi city of Hilla, killing at least 33 civilians, and wounding scores of others.

In the other story, I read that a mother in Iowa misses her son very much now that he has gone to war. Her life continues as normal, but sometimes she feels very anxious, and is worried that her son may suffer emotional harm if he is led to believe that some Americans oppose the war.

Wondering why the second new story gets more air time,
Mother Davis

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