I don't know about anyone else, but I think the world I knew ended a few days ago and a new one began. I'm trying to understand the new one and figure out how to deal with it. At this point many of the facts of the new world are still obscure. A good deal of what I hear -- the tub-thumping, the sentimentalization, the reflections of reflections on the media -- now seem to echo from another room.
By coincidence, I was just given a gift of the Criterion Collection edition of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, and watched it this evening. There is a shocking sequence early in the film in which concrete towers thrust upward from the Earth, looking a lot like the collapse of the WTC towers in reverse. I have been chilled to see the film again in light of the Event, and to consider what parallels may exist between Gilliam's nightmare and our future as a country in a state of permanent war/surveillance, i.e. "the facts of the new world." I hear echoes from another room, too--the interrogation room. I hope I'm wrong, of course. But it all seems to be playing so conveniently for the Bushite agenda. What sort of resistance is possible at this point? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20010916/1de0ae18/attachment.htm>