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. This photograph was sent to us by LynneZ, who happened upon this super-sized bumper sticker while driving between Newport and Lincoln on the Oregon coast a couple weeks back. We couldn't say it any better: ![]() Also, we want to pass along a contest sponsored by MoveOn, that fantastic grassroots action organization that helped to bring the anti-war movement together last year. This contest asks people to film or write their own 30-second advertisements that tell the Truth about George W. Bush. Go to it, you irregular cinematographers! Oh, what a diffuse blog it is today, drifting, thinly, skimming, skipping from rock to rock to rock, touching that shallow water that's been gathering on my mind... Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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