Neo-Victorian America?
05/22/05
[T]he political fights over Iraq, Social Security, and now the filibuster are not isolated, they are about whether we are going to create the kind of society that a military hegemony requires to sustain itself: filled with people who are desperate for work, a stone's throw from poverty, and feeling themselves surrounded and beset by terrors and disaster. People who, therefore, cling zealously to arbitrary rules and partisan passions. Each fight is not about the margins of a few court decisions, nor a few dollars in a monthly check, nor over how much testing to do in schools -- instead, it is over what kind of people we are to become, and what kind of nation we are to be, now, and for a century to come...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052205A.shtml
from TruthOut, by Stirling Newberry
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
[T]he political fights over Iraq, Social Security, and now the filibuster are not isolated, they are about whether we are going to create the kind of society that a military hegemony requires to sustain itself: filled with people who are desperate for work, a stone's throw from poverty, and feeling themselves surrounded and beset by terrors and disaster. People who, therefore, cling zealously to arbitrary rules and partisan passions. Each fight is not about the margins of a few court decisions, nor a few dollars in a monthly check, nor over how much testing to do in schools -- instead, it is over what kind of people we are to become, and what kind of nation we are to be, now, and for a century to come...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052205A.shtml
from TruthOut, by Stirling Newberry
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Mai, 10:23
