<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Gordon Fitch wrote: </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><EM>I don't know about anyone else, but I think the world I knew<BR>ended a few days ago and a new one began.  I'm trying to<BR>understand the new one and figure out how to deal with it.<BR>At this point many of the facts of the new world are still<BR>obscure.  A good deal of what I hear -- the tub-thumping,<BR>the sentimentalization, the reflections of reflections on<BR>the media -- now seem to echo from another room. </EM></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><EM></EM></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>By coincidence, I was just given a gift of the Criterion Collection edition of Terry Gilliam's <U>Brazil</U>, 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?</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>