Tuesday, November 18, 2003
WHILE flying last night, I finally got the chance to think of the new horror which happened in istanbul on the Sabbath. The holy day, and a twin attack on those who were praying for their daily lives and for their loved ones, as well as on those who were simply passing by.
An attack perpetrated by men and women without a face, without balls, without humanity and without any relationship whatsoever with God.
The absence of any such comment in the European papers they had just given me before boarding the plane, made me think of how far we have drifted. America on one side, with its fixation with rules, fairness , principles that make it live in a world where black and white still are as distinct ans good and evil and Europe on the other, drowning in an Ocean of gray. Gray like the color of the average person's hair, gray like the facades of most of their suburbian edifices,gray like the indistinct mud puddle in which their attempt at practicing "tollerance" has tried to dissolve the borders good and bad. Now they are confronting the choice between liberty and fascism... and they can't tell the difference.
An attack perpetrated by men and women without a face, without balls, without humanity and without any relationship whatsoever with God.
The absence of any such comment in the European papers they had just given me before boarding the plane, made me think of how far we have drifted. America on one side, with its fixation with rules, fairness , principles that make it live in a world where black and white still are as distinct ans good and evil and Europe on the other, drowning in an Ocean of gray. Gray like the color of the average person's hair, gray like the facades of most of their suburbian edifices,gray like the indistinct mud puddle in which their attempt at practicing "tollerance" has tried to dissolve the borders good and bad. Now they are confronting the choice between liberty and fascism... and they can't tell the difference.
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