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.


General William "Holy Roller" Boykin Involved in Abuse Scandal
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
 
Army Lt. General William Boykin,
  • who has allowed military bases to be used for Christian proselytization,
  • who said his God was bigger than the Muslims' God,
  • who said of a Muslim that he knew that his God was a real God and the Muslim's was an idol,
  • who said the United States' enemies hated the U.S. for its Christianity,
  • who referred to U.S. wars as waged against Satan,
  • and whom George W. Bush refused to fire as

apparently gave the go-ahead for prisoners to be roughed up prior to interrogation. This is in Boykin's capacity as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Intelligence.

Read about it in this Reuters news article.

When religious zealotry and unchecked power are combined, is this the result?

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