A Bleak Future

Saw setting of Bush inauguration. It looked like Imperial Rome. Lavish party while people in Iraq are dying. In the restricted/restrictive discursive space of the imperial rulers, invasion is liberation, offense is defense, an arching power in the wings of the Iraqi elections is democracy. In this perverted dimension where the use of the word has been so debased, one country is bringing freedom to the rest of the globe, with no sense of irony, it seems.

New moves by the US look disturbing. I don't know what exactly it is, but I have a vague feeling of something bleak ahead, crucially in the coming five years. Have to do more research. Meanwhile, people should be more alerted to what's happening in the world. Perhaps the UN, progressive governments, people's movements, even the Church should be mobilizing more its people.

Quotes: "The eye has become a human eye when its object has become a human, social object"

Aijaz Ahmad: "The first resource of hope is memory itself."