Prometheus 6

I think the results of this survey indicates more strongly than any other information that I have come across that we are living in a period, at least in the United States, of profoundly disturbing uncertainty and dread. This mood is generally attributed to the attack on the World Trade Center but I am beginning to suspect that this feeling actually owes it antecedents to the 1960s when the world, as (white) Americans generally liked and understood it, began to be turned upside down. I think, for example, that the elections of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were at a pyschological level attempts at restoring a dead order of things. Carter proved to be a little bit too pious and only accelerated people's sense of dread.

You know I think it serves to remind us that the paranoia of the comfortable is well-deserved. There are millions of idiots out there, idiots of all shapes, sizes and dimensions.

As I continue to say, one should not use the President and his policies as a proxy for dumbo-Americans.

Only a true Christian would write a sentence like that one. ;-)