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. Two points in the news today illustrate how dissent is finally recovering from the stomping it has received from the Bush Administration: 1. In New York City alone, over one hundred thousand people have come together to protest the lies that George W. Bush told America to convince the nation to invade Iraq. Across the rest of America and the world, millions of others have gathered in other protests, strongly rejecting the dangerous course of unprovoked warfare against international law that Bush has adopted. 2. The man who held the position of White House anti-terrorism coordinator in the wake of September 11 has revealed that George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld planned to attack Iraq even as early as September 11 and September 12, 2001, in spite of the fact that Bush's intelligence advisors informed him clearly that Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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