words, words, words
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If I begin to detail myself here, will you understand?
P. I am me
Q. I don't always know exactly who that is
R. I am Quaker
S. I like words and playing with them
T. I like genmaicha tea
U. I like the word napkin more than most others
V. I spend time walking my neighborhood
W. I cook rice often
X. I sleep well most every night
Y. I eat large amounts of fruit and vegetables
Z. I munch, sleep, write, create, cook, bike, watch, walk, listen, hope, learn, drink, live, breathe, touch, know, question, taste, copy, read, stare, carry, talk, dance, finger, try.
raisin@gmail.com
albums:
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Erasure: I Say, I Say, I Say
Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
George Michael: Listen without Prejudice
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
songs:
Wild is the Wind: Nina Simone
Come Undone: Duran Duran
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Rachmaninov
My Funny Valentine: Chet Baker
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate: The Flaming Lips
This Must Be the Place: The Talking Heads
Hyperballad: Bjork
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Sunday, October 26, 2003
Defence Sectretary Rumsfield recently announced a new war, this time a “war on ideas”. Certainly, controlling information has been a staple of wartime, whether securing our own secrets or trying to influence the minds of others, war leaders have always sought to have control. The more interconnected our world becomes, the less governments are able to control ideas, which benefits people in the longterm by exposing government lies. In this case, we can’t help question Secretary Rumsfield motives in his blatant attempt to convince people their ideas are wrong. Many Americans and people worldwide already distrust him because of his comments in the past, based on the examples he has shown us. Will we target everyone who already has their own opinion of the American dream, attempt to step off of our very shaky grounds for this war and convince them that we are always right, that we play this fight fairly? From reading commentaries around the world and from seeing thousands of people demonstrating in Australia and the Philippines against our President when he visits, I know people dislike us, average everyday people who are looking at the evidence themselves. Evidence like the detainment of people at Guantanamo Bay, evidence like the way we ridicule our allies, evidence like the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, evidence they can see right through. I wonder how much damage America will do to itself as we try to convince other people that our judgement is morally surperior to theirs, if we start a war on their ideas? If what the world has already heard from the mouths of our leaders are known to be lies, how can a new American government agency expect to speak and be heard? If they don’t laugh in derision, they will suspect us of something more sinister, of actually expecting to be able to control their collective minds. In an already distrustful world, in a world that has increasing control of their own information, trying to spread slanted disinformation makes a mockery of our ideals.
1:30 PM
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