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Headling into?

Posted September 14, 2001 8:37 AM.

I am extraordinarily tired and frayed at the moment. I look around me and everyone is engaged in the worship of this tragedy. Much like with Princess Diana, everyone is busy feeling. Some people are mourning, some are in violent rages. Everything that is being done is being done on instinct, and while we're busy wondering what will happen, civil liberties are under threat (worldwide), ethnic minorities are being hounded (worldwide) and cities are building trenches to hide in when the inevitable apocalypse rains down from the sky. There's a danger in uniting countries - do they unite behind the attitudes of the progressive, the mournful, the violent? And does anyone have the strength - or the inclination - to work through the issues from the beginning. At the moment, people are all running in one direction, and no one knows whether it's the future or a cliff...

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