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political stuff
Jul. 9th, 2004 12:03 am( petition to trade volunteer time for permit to protest RNC in central park -- please look if local to NYC )
Additionally, this completely journalisticly appropriate article on the latest terror threats is worth reading, mainly for the thinly veiled rage of the journalism community at having to scurry about and devote front pages to news that boils down to "freak out! don't leave your homes! voting scary! we have no idea what is going on and neither do the guys in charge!" http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/politics/09home.html?hp
Because I have such a dim view of the intelligence, organizational skill and ability to contain leaks by any government or organization, ultimately, I wind up pretty much not being a conspiracy theorist at all. That said: Power is an organism that, regardless of what we wield it for, is designed to protect and propigate its own existence. This emphatically does _not_ make it inherently bad, but like fire, like a dog that will bite its master and like the odd-numbered social group that will ultimately eat its own, you can't ever forget what it is, and what it wants and what it will do, quite well and apart from human will.
To me, that's one of the more interesting and disturbing facets of our current political state of affairs.
Additionally, this completely journalisticly appropriate article on the latest terror threats is worth reading, mainly for the thinly veiled rage of the journalism community at having to scurry about and devote front pages to news that boils down to "freak out! don't leave your homes! voting scary! we have no idea what is going on and neither do the guys in charge!" http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/politics/09home.html?hp
Because I have such a dim view of the intelligence, organizational skill and ability to contain leaks by any government or organization, ultimately, I wind up pretty much not being a conspiracy theorist at all. That said: Power is an organism that, regardless of what we wield it for, is designed to protect and propigate its own existence. This emphatically does _not_ make it inherently bad, but like fire, like a dog that will bite its master and like the odd-numbered social group that will ultimately eat its own, you can't ever forget what it is, and what it wants and what it will do, quite well and apart from human will.
To me, that's one of the more interesting and disturbing facets of our current political state of affairs.
