Flotsam and Jetsam

The difficulties of attempting to persuade an undiscerning public are indirectly correlated to the collapsibility of the issue at hand. Bush lied, people died is at least 50% right. It's implication, however, is 100% wrong.

The only thing worse than being wrong is being right, and alone.

The worlds we create in cinema now will be worlds to visit in our minds later. This turnabout will be here shortly, and it will not be relegated to the world of metaphor.

We don't realize it yet, but the inadvertent expressions of freedom that we take for granted will shine through to later generations in their moments of doubt and darkness. Seinfeld and Star Wars will last much longer than we. If poets are the unofficial legislators, we can take comfort in the worth of the laws we have passed. So long as they are remembered and recorded, we shall be free.

There is a growing suspicion in my mind that we must wait, and prepare. Leave precipitous action to the enemy. We must never lose our myth of virtue.

Many people who are not culturally mature will soon be granted an undeserved respite from nature's fury. Blame technology, but hold accountable the people, or our own Frankenstein's monster we will have made.

White flight will follow the space elevator out of the atmosphere.

We are building ourselves a world of distraction. Perhaps the alchemy of the senses is our last resort in our long, bloody fight against envy, and despair. If so, good riddance, and God help us.

Perhaps a machine can do better. Perhaps we will let it.