Kasey, I am so non-John-Wayne-like, you wouldn't believe it. I
don't even kill insects. I was a vegetarian for 20 years and a very
strict vegan for 10. Canadians have this thing they do with trees -
they wrap yellow tape round it and it kills the caterpillars that
live in the trees, so they don't dangle into people's hair in the
spring (how silly is that?) So I go around pulling the tape off -
liberating caterpillars! But because I support the liberation of
Iraqis, some of whom I know as friends, I'm suddenly a rightwing
fascist warmonger! It just makes me want to leave the West and go
live somewhere else, because I think we've lost all sense of
morality, maybe because life is too easy or something. Maybe it's
like all empires (Roman, Athenian, Egyptian, Ottoman, British,
American) - you reach a certain point of education and ease of
lifestyle, and you burn out because you've forgotten what life is
about.
I keep thinking of Charles Dickens - "This boy is Ignorance. This
girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of
all, beware this boy . . ."
Sarah
At 12:34 PM -0600 02/12/2003, kasey simpson wrote:
Sarah,
People have made up their minds, and then closed them.
I'm sure you, as have I, wanted a peaceful end to this,
but that option no longer seems posible . . . Saying I support
the war effort does not mean that I think the Jonh Wayne way is the
answer, go in with gus blazzing, and shoot every thing in sight.
