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Sunday
Mar272011

This imploding, mortal coil

DateSunday, March 27, 2011 at 12:18AM

This planet speaks from the deep does it not? Earthquake, tsunami and pestilent radiation--altogether a braided emblem of unrest the world over. The Middle East has awakened from the stupor of populations divided and thusconquered.

The West, even while performing democracy's chorus, stage manages fortriumph of the box-seated season ticket holders, no matter the outcome ofthe drama. We, the remainder of the audience, sit flattened by the torrent of words, images and sound--a phenomenon we confuse as deus-ex-machina; that technology's widening scope and velocity will in the end deliver us all.

Authorjude folly
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