04 September 2005

- Mad as Hell -

David Brooks write this?

We're not really at a tipping point as much as a bursting point. People are mad as hell, unwilling to take it anymore.

Update
But then I read this:

"Forty-six percent of Americans approve of Bush's handling of the crisis, while 47 percent disapprove."
"48 percent give a positive rating to the federal government's response overall, compared with 51 percent who rate it negatively."

What planet do we live on?

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope