1. Am I covered in semen?
2. Is it my semen?
3. Does it matter?
Tag: time
Three Questions.
Three Questions.
1. Am I covered in semen?
2. Is it my semen?
3. Does it matter?
The Mislaid Deck: Card 26 – The Road.
The Mislaid Deck: Card 25 – The Clouds.
The Mislaid Deck: Card 23 – The Peak.
The Mislaid Deck: Card 22 – The Lodge.
The Mislaid Deck: Card 21 – The Missed Opportunity.
The Mislaid Deck: Card 20 – The Ring.
The Mislaid Deck: Card 19 – The Box.
The Mislaid Deck: Card 18 – The Clock.
The Surveillance Society | TIME.com
Secrets are so 20th century now that we have the ability to collect and store billions of pieces of data forever
And this is all okay with everyone?
The Surveillance Society | TIME.com
Secrets are so 20th century now that we have the ability to collect and store billions of pieces of data forever
And this is all okay with everyone?
The Case for Rage and Retribution
The Case for Rage and Retribution
This was written for Time magazine by the journalist Lance Murrow two days after 9/11.
I can imagine he was still impassioned after what happened, given that Time has offices in New York.
I’ve pulled out a few choice quotes.
- For once, let’s have no fatuous rhetoric about “healing.”
- Let America explore the rich reciprocal possibilities of the fatwa.
- A policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span
- America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness–and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred.
- It’s a practical matter, anyway. In war, enemies are enemies. You find them and put them out of business, on the sound principle that that’s what they are trying to do to you.
- America, in the spasms of a few hours, became a changed country. It turned the corner, at last, out of the 1990s. The menu of American priorities was rearranged. The presidency of George W. Bush begins now. What seemed important a few days ago (in the media, at least) became instantly trivial
- The worst times, as we see, separate the civilized of the world from the uncivilized. This is the moment of clarity. Let the civilized toughen up, and let the uncivilized take their chances in the game they started.
By all means read the whole article. It isn’t much longer than the sections I extracted it’s just that these particular extractions and the article as a whole are terrifying and mark in many ways the emotions that allowed for the surveillance state that we now live in.
Always best to watch out for those trick emotions no matter what the awful thing that has been done to you or your country.
As Gore Vidal said, “Goebbels never pulled it off that well.”
The Case for Rage and Retribution
The Case for Rage and Retribution
This was written for Time magazine by the journalist Lance Murrow two days after 9/11.
I can imagine he was still impassioned after what happened, given that Time has offices in New York.
I’ve pulled out a few choice quotes.
- For once, let’s have no fatuous rhetoric about “healing.”
- Let America explore the rich reciprocal possibilities of the fatwa.
- A policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span
- America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness–and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred.
- It’s a practical matter, anyway. In war, enemies are enemies. You find them and put them out of business, on the sound principle that that’s what they are trying to do to you.
- America, in the spasms of a few hours, became a changed country. It turned the corner, at last, out of the 1990s. The menu of American priorities was rearranged. The presidency of George W. Bush begins now. What seemed important a few days ago (in the media, at least) became instantly trivial
- The worst times, as we see, separate the civilized of the world from the uncivilized. This is the moment of clarity. Let the civilized toughen up, and let the uncivilized take their chances in the game they started.
By all means read the whole article. It isn’t much longer than the sections I extracted it’s just that these particular extractions and the article as a whole are terrifying and mark in many ways the emotions that allowed for the surveillance state that we now live in.
Always best to watch out for those trick emotions no matter what the awful thing that has been done to you or your country.
As Gore Vidal said, “Goebbels never pulled it off that well.”
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This is a photograph of a cell that I took when I was on Alcatraz.
This music is the sound that I imagine echoed in the head of the prisoner who sat for years in this cell waiting for Freedom or Death.
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This is a photograph of a cell that I took when I was on Alcatraz.
This music is the sound that I imagine echoed in the head of the prisoner who sat for years in this cell waiting for Freedom or Death.