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. The American military has now admitted that it has 22 separate investigations into torture of prisoners by American soldiers. Keep this in mind: Those 22 are just the instances that the military is admitting to. It took a major scandal for them to 'fess up to these, so how many more cases have they covered up? Also, it's safe to assume that for every incident of torture that has been discovered, there are many more that have gone undiscovered. Oh, but you see, the George W. Bush and his aides weren't lying to us when they said that American torture of Iraqi prisoners was "an isolated incident". You see, each time that an American soldier tortures an Iraqi prisoner, it's one particular isolated incident, so technically, it's not a lie, see... Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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