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 gazes skyward and advises,You may not have heard the story yet, but there's a fantastic new photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope. The scientists in charge of the telescope pointed Hubble toward what appears to us to be a dark space in the sky, and then set the lens open for a long exposure. What they found was a little slice of the universe chock full of galaxies of all kinds. We urge you to go ahead and look at the picture yourself, at the Hubble News Site. Look at all those galaxies and realize how many stars lie in each, in this one small dot in the sky. How many carry life - like ours, unlike ours? What this really puts in perspective is the loony set of priorities advocated by George W. Bush, who wants to shut the Hubble Space Telescope down. Take a good look at that picture, and wonder how many more Bush will allow us to see. Groaning at the pseudoscience of President Moonbeam, Mother Davis Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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