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. In today's New York Times, Nicholas Kristof reveals that Dick Cheney's 2003 Christmas card included this quotation: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?" Beware a Vice President who thinks God is his ally. The whole "empire" reference in the card is a bit troubling, too. The job of the President and Vice President is to run the country, not rule the world. Most troubling is that Dick Cheney felt comfortable sending out hundreds of Christmas cards with the message that God was his Imperial ally. To root out the moral rot at the base of this hubris, we need to remove the current occupants of the White House. ![]() ![]() ![]() |