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 Tuesday, September 12, 2006
started 9/12/2006; 9:21:21 AM - last post 9/12/2006; 2:59:18 PM
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Doc Searls - Tuesday, September 12, 2006 
9/12/2006; 1:21:21 PM (reads: 3910, responses: 2)
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Quote du jour 
| | Another, It's better than everything, because the other stuff doesn't exist. Not even sure what he means by that, but it's ironic and cool. Brad's in a panel here at DIDW. |
| | Next, in response to a (wrong) question about there being a "hole in OpenID", Brad says, There's a hole in PayPal, because I keep getting mails telling me to fix it. |
Power from the people
Chain reaction
Five years ago today
| | As our parents came of age with the Great Depression and were tempered into adulthood by the Second World War, we were born into the world of Nuclear destruction, came of age with Kennedy¹s assassination, and were tempered into our adulthood by Vietnam, will today¹s youth see this as their crucible? Or is this just a turning point into the world they are inheriting? Is this the Pandora's box for them as the Bomb was for us? Once opened, it can never be closed; it is a reality that they will always live with? |
| | Oh God, I hope not. I pray not. But I fear so. |
| | But may this also be the fire that fuses us into the nation we can be, the world we can be. Like it did after the Depression and WWII, strength can come out of strife, heroism out of horror and hope out of Hell. May we be up to the test. May the world be with us. |
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Your sister said, "Like it did after the Depression and WWII, strength can come out of strife, heroism out of horror and hope out of Hell. May we be up to the test. May the world be with us."
For a short time after the horror of 9/ll, it did seem that your sister's wishes might come true. Ordinary people, as they always do in dire circumstances, came together and exhibited enormous courage, and the nations of the world were in sympathy with our nation's plight.
But in the depression, we had FDR's counsel that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And after WWII, we had the Marshall Plan -- basically a program to repair the ravages of war to promote a healthy world community. In the last five years, our national leaders have chosen to exacerbate global tensions by using fear to maintain power domestically while ignoring and insulting our former allies around the world.
Perhaps I'm overly pessimistic, but I'm afraid the neoconservatives' efforts to cement our country's position as the pre-eminent world power has instead marked a turning point in our decline.
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Doc Searls - Re: Monday, 9/11 2006
9/12/2006; 6:59:18 PM (reads: 723, responses: 0)
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I agree. It's sad, but I'm afraid it's true.
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