Anniversary

[poliphilo]

I've just looked at the date.

Oh my- 9/11!

Why wasn't I apprised of this? Why weren't the papers full of commemorative stuff?

I guess because we've moved on. We have Iraq to worry about. Katrina has changed the paradigm just as the attack on the twin towers once did.

This is a fast-moving century.

We're packing more history into the available time than we ever did before.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think these are crisis times for democracy. I've found myself thinking the same bleak thoughts. If the vote isn't delivering good government then what about the alternatives?

But finally I think I have to agree with Churchill. "Democracy is the worst form of government- apart from all the others."

[mummm.livejournal.com]

You two are such wonderful writers. Thank you for making me think your thoughts.

Churchill... so smart despite all of his critics.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I'm not an uncritical admirer of Churchill's. He was wrong about a lot of things- but wonderfully right about One Thing when it really mattered.

He had a great gift for phrase-making too.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I know there is no alternative if I want to be able to take pride in who I am and what I feel; I have to be a bleeding-hearted, tolerant, socialist democrat, but sometimes I just wish I could be something else.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Deomcracy is in trouble. Fewer people are voting. In a way it's the victim of it's own success.