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. Presidential Meetup indications that we are near the end: yesterday, Howard Dean added only 23 people to his meetup, Wesley Clark lost 109 people from his meetup, and John Kerry added 1,044. 'Course, George W. Bush added only 16 people, and he's essentially alone on the Republican ticket. This tells you how popular the Bush candidacy is. Bush's meetup totals are only 7% of Kerry's, 5% of Clark's, and 2% of Dean's. ![]() ![]() ![]() |