06-06-2009, 12:59 PM
Thanks, Peter, for the link, duly tucked away for exploration at a later time.
One of the things that has happened here is that I have opened a door for myself and others to additional perspective (always a good thing), from the UK and Europe and elsewhere, which can stream light and fresh air into the insularity of America and "our" self-proclaimed attitudes of exceptionality, of an untouchable being, beyond and above it all.
As for the bumpersticker, it's great, though there may be a problem in that some will see it and sell it as simple acceptable and obvious truth ...
unless, perhaps, it is linked to documented evidence of "badness", which isn't hard to find even if folks are scurrying around to make sure you can't see it, or that if you do, you will accept it with their spin.
Photography, for example, has captured the horrors of war since Matthew Brady, though that function also has gotten turned on its head in our new world of newspeak to become "war porn". One photo that comes to mind is of the missile-destroyed ambulance with the gaping hole right square in the middle of the red cross on top of the ambulance.
One of the things that has happened here is that I have opened a door for myself and others to additional perspective (always a good thing), from the UK and Europe and elsewhere, which can stream light and fresh air into the insularity of America and "our" self-proclaimed attitudes of exceptionality, of an untouchable being, beyond and above it all.
As for the bumpersticker, it's great, though there may be a problem in that some will see it and sell it as simple acceptable and obvious truth ...
unless, perhaps, it is linked to documented evidence of "badness", which isn't hard to find even if folks are scurrying around to make sure you can't see it, or that if you do, you will accept it with their spin.
Photography, for example, has captured the horrors of war since Matthew Brady, though that function also has gotten turned on its head in our new world of newspeak to become "war porn". One photo that comes to mind is of the missile-destroyed ambulance with the gaping hole right square in the middle of the red cross on top of the ambulance.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"