Deal. I'll even bring tea. When we have thus fortified ourselves sufficiently, we might be able to emerge to try to change the world by teaching the beautiful value of freedom - the one that Bush claims to be reinforcing in Iraq, even as it dies at home.
But really, now: is America going to become a dystopia, the type that so many sci-fi writers attempted to warn us against? Because I feel my country slipping away from me. I always thought, probably just like you, that the freedom to voice one's opinion, no matter how unpopular, was a fundamental componant of American identity. That no matter how much anyone disagrees with a current governmental policy, for instance, that they would consider themselves American precisely because they are free to disagree and to protest and to work for change.
What are these teens learning? And how can they be taught better?
We'll be quite comfy in our hidey-hole, yes. *makes lists*
And my goodness but you're articulate at 2 a.m.! My brain has unlearnt this skill as the academic side has been left largely dormant for the last... eight or nine months.
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Please believe that I don't say this lightly:
Date: 2005-02-02 01:16 am (UTC)Oh God, I have fear...
If you need me, I'll be cowering under my bed.
Re: Please believe that I don't say this lightly:
Date: 2005-02-02 06:21 am (UTC)how about a flashlight?
Date: 2005-02-02 06:56 am (UTC)But really, now: is America going to become a dystopia, the type that so many sci-fi writers attempted to warn us against? Because I feel my country slipping away from me. I always thought, probably just like you, that the freedom to voice one's opinion, no matter how unpopular, was a fundamental componant of American identity. That no matter how much anyone disagrees with a current governmental policy, for instance, that they would consider themselves American precisely because they are free to disagree and to protest and to work for change.
What are these teens learning? And how can they be taught better?
And a good supply of batteries. And music! And....
Date: 2005-02-02 08:20 am (UTC)And my goodness but you're articulate at 2 a.m.! My brain has unlearnt this skill as the academic side has been left largely dormant for the last... eight or nine months.
Wow, has it been that long? Huzzah!
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