Green Light

I find myself in a dilemma - I very rarely ever feel inclined to blog about anything light. Most of the things that move me to write these days are not things that I'm inclined to face in print, at least not in a form anywhere near as direct as my own words.

However, note William Saletan's fine piece on the age of terror. Will Saletan claims we now live in a "liquid" world, one in which certainty comes only from believing that a higher purpose will prevail despite personal sacrifice. But this theme's nothing new: as Karl Marx noted, in the modern world, "all that is solid melts into air."

So we soldier on, boats against the current, bourn back ceaselessly into the past.