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. Looks like one thing Bush II will be remembered for is a proliferation of euphemisms for the word "torture." The latest one, right up there with Richard Myers' "creating suitable physical and mental conditions for interrogation," comes from Ronald Dumbsfeld spokesman Larry Di Rita, who recently spoke of "non-doctrinal" interrogation methods. (Source: AP, 5/21/04) Wonder if they used these kinds of "non-doctrinal" methods for "creating suitable physical and mental conditions for interrogation" back during the Spanish Inquisition. Wonder if these methods yielded any information on heresy-"related program activities." Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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