RHIZOME_RAW: READ WELL...

furtherfield info at furtherfield.org
Mon Sep 17 02:06:42 CEST 2001


I'm just waiting for an eclipse to arrive now as the end of the world begins
to happen...

marc

> In a message dated 9/16/2001 4:45:12 PM Central Daylight Time,
> askrom at graphpaper.com writes:
> 
>> A
>> speech where the USA claims the moral high ground for our very real
>> traditions of tolerance and diversity.
>> 
>> Clinton would have done it.
>> 
>> -Cf
> 
> Yes, I can't imagine a worse time to have such a limited President, with such
> a reverse mandate.  Even the pundits on CNN look as if the situation is
> hopeless; they've been acting for so long as if nothing is wrong, and all
> dissent is just vapid teenage angst.
> 
> I'm sifting through my own resources, and I'm reminded of thinking that the
> 2000 election actually resulted in no president and that the rest of us would
> have to pick up the slack.  This thought makes me feel fairly sick though,
> considering how deeply my own generation of US citizens, aged say 30 plus or
> minus 7, has sunk into incompetence and inaction.  Except for Thomas Frank I
> feel like we may not be up to our responsibilites in protecting everything
> from the juggernauts of the current US system, put in place mostly by WWII
> politicos and burnt-out boomers.  Of course we have to try, but like they say
> "where are the strong, and who am I to trust in?"
> 
> Max Herman
> 
> ++
> 
> 
> 





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