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. So far this month, we've sold 50% more Howard Dean bumper stickers than we have Dennis Kucinich stickers. Both Dean and Kucinich sales swamp sales for all other candidates. But before the folks over at Dean headquarters start crowing, it might be helpful to note that a full 95% of our sales this month bear an anti-Bush message, and a mere 1% of the items we've sold mention a specific Democratic candidate at all. This seems to indicate that politics is being driven by animus toward George W. Bush much more than it is driven by a fondness toward any Democratic candidate. ![]() ![]() ![]() |