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. NOW he wants to know the truth?"I want the American people to know that I, too, want to know the facts."So said George W. Bush yesterday about the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The problem is, the Bush Administration said they had the facts a year ago, and they took us to war based on those supposed facts. Where did those facts go, Mr. Bush? If you didn't have them, what in the name of sanity were you doing dragging a nation to war? Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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