••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Monday, March 13, 2006

short memory?


book tv just reran last fall's telecast on john friedman's the secret histories: hidden truths that challenged the past and changed the world, but the listing didn't say the show featured a panel with philip gourevitch, mark danner, and morley safer.

the q&a got into issues ranging from abu ghraib to our suspicious election results.

an audience member said what's going on lately isn't really new, and americans seem not to recall history.

gourevitch suddenly went into patriot mode and got a bit worked up—tho he said he doesn't defend everything. his point was that short memories, abuse of power, and bad press coverage aren't unique to america, and almost everywhere else is worse.

even so, it's no excuse. we don't live anywhere else. we're responsible for this country. it's our duty to make sure it does what's right, no matter how bad other places might be.

news media could help a lot by putting current events into historical perspective when present seems to echo past.

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